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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Beverly Barksdale Sheppe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0103
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 July 1999; 2 photographs of Sheppe during her American Red Cross service, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Bernice Bonner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0189
Content Description

The collection includes various correspondence, September 1943-July 1945; various photographs, 1943-1945; mixed materials including Christmas greetings, an order from the Postmaster General, a letter from her husband.

Dates: circa 1943-1945

Jean M. Bright Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0295
Scope and Contents Papers, photographs, an oral history interview, and artifacts and textiles document Jean M. Bright's Red Cross service in New Guinea, Japan, and the Philippines during World War II. Papers include five postcards from New Guinea; a postcard of the S.S. Lurline, the passenger troop ship that Bright sailed on; a 1945 Christmas card from the Philippines; and a 1944 immunization register. Postcards contain brief messages about an all-African American church in New Guinea and about the cabin...
Dates: 1944-1946, 2004-2005

Dorothy Coley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0117
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.

Dates: circa 1940-1999

M. Jean Moore Fasse Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0390
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 March 2007; scans of photographs; copy of 1958 memoir "My trip behind the Iron Curtain"; copy of American Red Cross Overseas Service Certificate, 1946. The majority of this collection is digital materials.

Dates: 1946, 1958, 2007

Margaret Greene Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0099
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; poem written by Walter Mathau, dedicated to Red Cross workers; various photographs of Greene's Red Cross service, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0261
Content Description

Two folders and a scrapbook. The scrapbook includes several brochures from Japan and Utah, letters from the Red Cross, and letters written to her mother. A manila folder includes various clippings from where Johnson was stationed and the second manila folder contains paperwork for a recommendation from a Red Cross Field Director, along with letters from her mother and possibly a gentleman who was her brother and various newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1943-1951

Mary Haynsworth Mathews Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0119
Scope and Contents

Mary Haynsworth Mathews was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1916. She served with the American Red Cross in England, France, and Germany from 1942 to 1946. Included in this collection are an oral history and photographs.

Dates: 1944-1999

Maggie V. McPherson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0123
Scope and Contents

The collection includes printed materials; including newsletters; booklets; yearbooks; and clippings especially from her time in Korea. Also, it includes 3 scrapbooks that document McPherson's Red Cross service, 1947-1959; additional scrapbook of club service at Double Five, Osan, Korea, 1959-1960.

Dates: 1943-1976

Mary "Pat" Elizabeth Partridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0310
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, maps, patches, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and official documents pertaining to Partridge's Red Cross service.

Dates: 1935-1972

Eleanor K. Peck Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0420
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.

Dates: 1941-1943

Helen Bolling Potts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0234
Content Description

Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.

Dates: 1943-1946, 2003