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Joan R. Kammer Horton stands outdoors in her Women Marines' olive green work shirt and garrison cap, circa 1955.
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Joan R. Kammer Horton walks beside Marine Corps Supply Forwarding Annex in San Francisco while stationed there between 1953 and 1957.
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Joan R. Kammer Horton, with one arm behind her back, aims a handgun while at the Marine Corps rifle range at Camp Matthews, California, on 19 March 1956. She wears the Wo[...]
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Joan R. Kammer Horton looks at the scoreboard during the Sixth Army Rifle Match, circa 1956.
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Joan R. Kammer, backed by the American and Marine flags, receives a certificate of promotion to sergeant on 8 May 1956. Kammer is wearing her Women Marines' spruce green [...]
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Joan R. Kammer Horton poses with a rifle in front of a target on 12 October 1954. Her jacket shows her marksmanship awards won while a member of the Annex Team Two rifle [...]
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Joan R. Kammer Horton poses with a rifle in front of a mirror on 22 March 1956. The back of her jacket, with patches signifying her marksmanship awards won while a member[...]
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Joan R. Kammer Horton lies on mattress aiming her rifle, sometime while stationed with Department of the Pacific in San Francisco from 1953 through 1956.
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Joan R. Kammer Horton sits on a box in civilian clothes at the Camp Matthews, California, rifle range, in 1955.
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Joan R. Kammer Horton (seated) is lone female among seven Marines with rifles on 17 March 1955. This is likely the 12th Naval District Annex Team Two rifle team.
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Joan R. Kammer Horton and two male Marines pose beside a barrel collecting gifts for the Toys For Tots program at a Shell Station, circa 1954. Kammer holds a doll, a Mari[...]
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Marines Joan R. Kammer Horton and Carl Horton pose on their wedding day in August 1957 with two members of the wedding party.
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Primarily documents Joan R. Kammer Horton's background; her experiences in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in the mid-1950s; and her life after her military service. Hor[...]
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Photo of Joan R. Kammer Horton in a bathing suit for the Ms. San Francisco Servicewoman contest, circa 1955
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Portrait of Joan R. Kammer Horton and Carl Horton, who married in August 1957, both wearing Marine Corps dress blues.
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Portrait of Joan R. Kammer Horton as a sergeant in her Women Marines' spruce green and white summer dress uniform, circa 1956.
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Photo of the Women Marines Third Recruit Battalion Platoon 21-A, the Battalion Honor Platoon, at Parris Island, South Carolina, on 27 January 1954. Joan R. Kammer Horton [...]
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Joan R. Kammer Horton (bottom) and fellow Women Marine Mae Van Hecke lay on their stomachs aiming rifles, circa 1956. The Marines are both wearing jackets with patches th[...]