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03. Women Veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: 03

Found in 728 Collections and/or Records:

Kathleen Lynch Simpson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0533
Content Description

May 2012 oral history transcript; Army Nurse Corps Desert Battle Dress Uniform ("Chocolate Chip") uniform (shirt, trousers,boonie hat), circa early 1990s.

Dates: circa 1990, 2012

Cheryl L. Sizer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0543
Abstract

Cheryl Sizer (b. 1964), of Morgantown, West Virginia, served in the United States Air Force Band from 1990 until 2010.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, photographs, compact discs, and a DVD.

Dates: 1990-2010

Agnes C. M. Sliter Rodgers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0097
Content Description

The collection includes Naval Discharge and Enrollment papers, 24 September 1918-31 December 1920; 2 photographs of Rodger's United States Naval Reserve Yeomanette, 1918-1919.

Dates: circa 1918 to 1920

Lucy Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0081
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; a photograph of Smith in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Margaret Chamberlin Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0349
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 June 2006; various photographs of Smith's Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) service, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944, 2006

Margaret Marian Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0036
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 1999; a spruce green uniform with white seersucker shirt, along with jacket and skirt; a spruce green bell crown hat with USMC device; a photograph of Smith in uniform, circa 1945-1946.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Sheila K. Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0317
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 January 2005; various photographs of Smith during her British Women's Royal Air Force (RAF) and as a model, circa 1943, undated.

Dates: 1942-1946, 2005

Shirley Ruth Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0318
Abstract Shirley R. Smith was a social worker in the American Red Cross from 1943 to 1945.Correspondence between Shirley R. Smith and her family and friends documents her service in the American Red Cross from 1943 to 1945. Letters in 1943 from Smith to her family in Wyoming, Ohio, describe her daily activities in great detail. Subjects in the spring of 1943 include her work with patients, a WAAC beauty shop, and a ceremony for Gray Ladies at her hospital in Indiana. Letters from...
Dates: 1941-1945

Marcia Jones Snow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0600
Content Description

This collection includes December 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; and Vietnamese safe conduct pass.

Dates: 1965-1972, 1977-1981, 2015

Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0146
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 February 2000; various photographs 1943-1944.

Dates: 1943-2000

Linnea Sommer-Weddington Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0673
Content Description

This collection includes February 2020 oral history transcript, photograph album, retirement program.

Dates: 2012, 2019, 2020

Unknown Spanish American War Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0669
Content Description This album depicts nurses and male medical personnel at Camp Cuba Libre near Jacksonville, Florida and Camp Onward in Savannah, Georgia. Photographs also include a patient being carried to a hospital train, the disinfecting tent, soldiers cooking and a few photos show the women leaving Camp Cuba Libre in a military carriage. Of particular note is an image of the four Native American nuns who served. These four women, Susan Bordeaux (the Reverend Mother M. Anthony),Ella Clark (the Reverend...
Dates: circa 1898

Effie Sparrow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0179
Content Description

The collection includes Army discharge paperwork, 1945; various photographs of Sparrow during her service, 1942-1945.

Dates: 1942-1945

Elsie Travilla Spear Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0685
Content Description Pocket Diary with entries from 9 September, 1918-20 July, 1919, documenting her experience as a dietitian with the United States Sanitary Corps in France during World War I. Inside the diary there are metal Iron Crosses from Champagne Bottles, patches, and other materials taped to the pages. Loose materials include personal photographs, baggage tag, R.M.S. Aquitania Deck Chair ticket, Nurses Pass for Hospital Center Kerhuon 1919, Paper from Grand Hotel De La Plage Morgat, War Department...
Dates: 1918-1919

Glennette Page Staloch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0305
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript with accompanying video tape of interview, undated.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Mary Galster Layton Starkey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0614
Content Description

This collection includes June 2016 oral history transcript and copies and originals of photographs and military papers.

Dates: 1969-2016

Ellen Brown Steel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0154
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.

Dates: circa 1949-1969

Ruth M. Strawn Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0423
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents.These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the...
Dates: 1945-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

Therese Strohmer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0441
Abstract Therese Strohmer (b. 1962) of West Branch, Michigan, served in the United States Air Force from 1980-1986 as a Russian Cryptologic Linguist, performance evaluator, and instructor for a classified National Security Agency system. This collection includes January 2009 oral history transcript; photographs; letters; autographed photograph of WASPS; Copies of military records; Goodfellow Air Gorce Base Unofficial Directory and Guide, 1981; The Airmen of Lackland Airforce Base Basic...
Dates: 1977-2009

The Inez Stroud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0009
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1994

Clara Fredere Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0450
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an album of photographs taken during Clara's time in the Army Nurse Corps, a copy of handwritten reminiscences, a copy of her certificate of identity from the War Department, and a medical kit.

Dates: 1918-1919

Dorothy R. Collins Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0187
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2004; various photographs of Sullivan's Women's Army Corps service, circa 1944; 2 Women's Army Corps overseas garrison caps located in textile box.

Dates: 1944-2004

Lillian Sutter Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0350
Content Description

This letter is dated 20 June, 1945. In it Sutter discusses the overseas voyage in which she stopped in Australia and Calcutta, India. She writes about her impressions of Calcutta and her living conditions and the hospital at her posting in Assam, India. Sutter also describes the typhoid ward to which she is assigned, the chaplain at the post, and her reaction to V-E Day.

Dates: 1945 June 20

Tricia Sutter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0546
Abstract

Tricia Sutter (b. 1963), of Carteret, New Jersey, served in the United States Coast Guard from 1985 until 1989.

The collection includes a 2013 March 23 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2013 March 23

Mary L. Sutton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0468
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 July 2009; a formal hand-tinted portrait photograph of Sutton in Women's Army Corps olive drab service shirtwaist, circa 1945; a photograph of Sutton standing in uniform at the day room of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; a photograph of Sutton in uniform with her brother, husband, and husband's brother, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2009

Grace Swank Alexander Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0018
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.

Dates: 1999 January 20

June Thomas Swearengin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0565
Content Description

This collection includes June 2014 oral history transcript; copies of newspaper clippings; and copy of her book "The Question: Give up or Get up?"

Dates: 2013-2014

Paulette Pat Sweeney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0553
Abstract

Paulette Pat Sweeney served in the American Red Cross from 1964-1966. During this time she spent thirteen months working in Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas Programs throughout South Korea before spending a year working at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Dates: 1962-1966; Other: Date acquired: 11/10/2013

Cathy Illman Sykes Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0340
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 2006.

Dates: 2006 January 25

Donna Barr Tabor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0521
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2011; 9 various scanned photographs while with the 82nd Airborne Division and with her fiancé, Edward, circa 1980.

Dates: 1980-2011

Elizabeth Taggart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0542
Abstract

Elizabeth Pedro Taggart (b. 1962), of South Korea, served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1982 to 1991 and the United States Navy Reserve from 1991-2010.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.

Dates: 1982-1991

Flora V. Taylor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0527
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 January 2012; a Coast Guard pin.

Dates: 1980s-2012

Adeline Ledesma Teague Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0241
Scope and Contents

The collection includes various photographs of Teague during her Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) work, circa 1945-1946; a Pace publication (copy) from Los Angeles City College, Col. 5, No. 2, October 1942; an oral history transcript, 17 January 2002.

Dates: 1942-2002

Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0197
Content Description

The collection includes miscellaneous photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, circa 1943 to 1945; "WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin; and Dog Tags, 1942.

Dates: circa 1942-1955

Molly Thavenet Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0429
Scope and Contents The scrapbook contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, newsletters, official military communications and records, and clippings primarily related to Thavenet's service in the WAAC and WAC, primarily with the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.The correspondence is from Thavenet to her family describing her experiences in the service. There are also letters to Thavenet from family and friends from home and fellow WACs, as well as post-war correspondence up to 1950. Included...
Dates: 1940-1950

Lorna W. Thigpen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0004
Content Description

The collection includes a certificate, 4 December 1945; a photograph of Thigpen, undated; various letters of correspondence, May 1944-August 1945.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1945

Dorothy E. Wain Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0431
Scope and Contents

The Dorothy Wain Thompson collection includes photographs, military and personal papers, humorous writings, military guides, newspaper clippings, ephemera from her posting to England, songbooks, and a 1945 book about the history of the Air Force Unit. Also included are artifacts such as ribbons, medals, devices, pins, and insignia and patches.

Dates: circa 1943-1972; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2008

Marjorie S. Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0337
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript completed by the Texas Woman's University Library, 4 June 1994; a photograph of Thompson during her WASP service, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944, 1994

Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006

Shirley M. Tillson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0302
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly from Port Blakely, Washington, document Tillson's daily life with the WAVES. Subjects include her dates and social activities, particularly the USO (United Service Organization), a Women's Service Club, dances, and athletics; her family; the status of the war, including the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the German surrender; WAVES uniforms and uniform regulations; and her work as a radio operator. Tillson writes in detail about the opportunities the navy provides and about...
Dates: 1945

Katharine W. Toll Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0293
Abstract

Katharine Wolcott Toll of Amherst, Massachusetts, was a journalist. She served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.

The Katharine W. Toll Papers span from 1929 to the 1980s and primarily documents Katharine Toll's service in the WAVES during World War II.

Dates: circa 1929-1989 and undated

Shanna Tracey Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0701
Abstract

Shanna Senior Tracey (b. 1985), of Jamaica, served as a unit supply specialist in the United States Army in the 2000s. This collection includes 38 letters to her husband from Enlisted Woman Army Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, during 2012.

Dates: 2012