Elyse Blye and Ernestine Anderson performing at service club, August 23, 1951
Transcribed from photo inventory: "Elyse Blye and Ernestine Anderson." U.S. Army Photograph. 9779-208-5/AM 51 23 Aug 1951. A Note in the Hollywood Canteen: entertainers Pianist Miss Elyse Blye and singer Miss Ernestine Anderson. Photographer: SFC Hannes Rau. 6902 ASU Port SV DET. Seattle P.O.E." Locations are provided at Camp George Jordan unless otherwise noted in the inventory description. U.S. Army ---- Pianist Elyse Blye is probably best known as one of the musical group Four Queens with 's adopted daughter Minnie Moore Hightower, Doris Jarrett, and Clora Bryant. Quite likely at Fort Lawton, given:File:Ernestine Anderson singing at Fort Lawton service club, February 14, 1950 - DPLA - 0a87fdfd90ebb44edd835db26cefd2b5.jpg. Camp George Jordan (just south of Spokane Street in Seattle) was long gone by 1951.
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- 1951-08-23
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