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Summary
Captain Molly Kool, 1939.

Myrtle "Molly" Kool become the first woman in North America to earn a coastal master's certificate from the Merchant Marine Institute (allowing her to captain a ship) in 1939.

There is part of an inscription on the photograph, but it is difficult to make out completely. It appears to be addresses to her eldest sister "Jean,"
 * "To Jean/The excellent sister (a or an) (a word starting with "y" that is cut off)/ever had/Molly"

Obituary in the New York Times, Albert County Historical Society Museum/Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, Wikip*dia

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