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Item Description

Title: Burlington: "Cooties" Club

Photographer

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

Source Document

Description

1945 Winter Members of the Cooties Club gather for a group photo. The Military Order of the Cootie cap is worn with points going ear to ear, the green tassels indicate a full cootie (1st Degree). Different color tassel and knot combination indicate officers through the national level. The tassel-less cap may be an unused cap or one belonging to a "nit" or "grayback" (3rd and 2nd Degree). Photo #1.

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

Subject/topic

• Veterans
• Portrait photography

Subject/name

• Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Supreme Cootiette Club of the United States

Subject/geographic

• Burlington (Vt.)

Note [Digital Version]

2008-09-24, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: still image

Parent Collections

• Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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