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Item Description

Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club

Photographer

• McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963

Source Document

Description

1947 or 1948 photo of members of the VFW Squirrel Club, assembled on and around a flat-bed truck, either before or after a parade in Burlington. Location is outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Society church at 152 Pearl Street (head of Church Street Marketplace), Burlington, Vt. They are part of the Military Order of the Cootie (MOC), an organization within VFW that seeks to have fun while also visiting the sick and disabled in veterans hospitals and elsewhere. The MOC motto is displayed on the side of the truck: "Keep 'Em Smiling in Beds of White."

Genre(s): photographs, black-and-white photographs

Subject/topic

• Parades
• Portrait photography
• Trucks
• Veterans

Subject/geographic

• Burlington (Vt.)

Type of Resource: still image

Parent Collections

• Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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