Scrapbook of Major Della Hayden Raney: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A scrapbook created by Della Hayden Raney, the principal chief nurse at Tuskegee Army Airfield during World War II. The scrapbook has a leather cover with the Air Force Pilot crest and a depiction of three planes flying amidst a cloud. The bottom right corner of the front of the cover has text that reads: [TUSKEGEE ARMY FLYING SCHOOL]. The interior pages contain photographs, clippings, an Association of Military Surgeons' Certificate, a signed photograph of Colonel Bousefield, head of the African American Medical Group at Tuskegee, and other ephemera connected with the Tuskegee Flying School. The back cover is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940-1945
• Created by: Major Della Hayden Raney, American, 1912-1987
• Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
• Subject of: United States Army Air Force, American, 1941 - 1947
• Type: scrapbooks
• Medium: ink on paper with leather cover
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 13 × 10 5/16 × 1 13/16 in. (33 × 26.2 × 4.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Medicine
• Topic: Military
• Topic: Nursing
• Topic: Tuskegee Airmen
• Topic: Women
• Topic: World War II
• Object number: 2014.63.81a-d
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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