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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Elaine Agnes Anderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0191
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; photographs of Elaine during her services as a WAC in Germany, 1949-1952; military payment certificates in five and ten cent denominations.

Dates: 1958-1968

Dorothy B. Austell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0184
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 September 2000; a photograph of Austell in uniform, 1943.

Dates: 1943-2000

Mildred Caroon Bailey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0084
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Bailey in her Women’s Army Corps uniform, 1959-1971; various newspaper clippings, 1958-2000; various personal papers, including a copy of Bailey’s biography, October 1971; publication titled “Conversations between Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey and Lieutenant Colonel Rhoda M. Messer,” September 1978; an oral history transcript, 26 May 1999.

Dates: 1958-2000

Betty U. Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0042
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 February 1999; photographs of Baker's Army Air Force service and after, 1944-1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Bertha Barwikowski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0188
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 November 2000; a portrait photograph of Barwikowski in uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944-2000

Ruth Virginia Payne Brown Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0193
Content Description

20 December 2000 oral history transcript; formal portrait photograph of Ruth in her WAC uniform in 1953 and 1962; photographs of Ruth during service in 1952-1963; original motor vehicle learners id card issued 1962.

Dates: 1953-1963

Violet K. Caudle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0066
Content Description

The collection includes various photograph copies of Caudle's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1945-1948; 2 copies of Honorable Discharge certificate, 9 July 1949; an oral history transcript, 20 April 1999.

Dates: 1945-1999

Jane Hydes Council Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0093
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 June oral history transcript; photocopies of Council in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform with basic training group, Daytona Beach, Florida; photograph of Council in jeep for the Motor Pool Transport Training, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1943; photocopy of Certificate of Honorable Discharge from the Army, 1944; and copies of Army Discharge paperwork.

Dates: 1943-1999

Gretchen C. Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0098
Scope and Contents

the collection includes various newspaper articles about the Army, April 1973-May 1992; a McClellan news article in WV various military papers, circa 1990-1999; various photographs, 1974, undated; textiles include: Army uniforms and uniform accessories worn by Gretchen Davis during her two decade career in the Women's Army Corps and United States Army.

Dates: 1973-1999

Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0177
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-2000

Isabella Peterson Evans Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0173
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 June 2000; a photograph of Evans Women's Army Corps service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-2000

Audrey Ann Fisher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0153
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Fisher's time in the Army, 1973-1974; a copy of a Times Herald article, 1974; handwritten speech for Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 2013.

Dates: circa 1973-2013

Nina M. Greenlee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0041
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, February 1999; 9 military pins; various military papers, 1948-1958; various personal papers, 1954-1980; photographs of Greenlee in England; miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: circa 1948-1999

Dorothy Farrington Gribble Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0035
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 1999; various photographs of Gribble's service with the Women's Army Corps and Auxiliary Corps, April 1943-December 1944; newspaper article from Kenersville News, 11 November 1995.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Bernice Isabel Heath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0195
Content Description 20 January 2001 oral history transcript; Artifact 1 box contains dogtag; insignia and discharge pins; copy of the History of the 91st Evacuation Hospital Overseas written by Ruth Schwing head nurse, 1945; War Correspondent Broadcast transcript of Iris Carpenter from the 91st Evac Hospital, undated; 91st Research News newsletter, circa 1991; typed "unofficial diary kept by an enlisted man Shorty Reese containing the history of the 91st evac hosp from 1942-45, 2001; newspaper article on...
Dates: 1948-1964

Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0064
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 1999; various military papers from Hinchliffe's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; copies of "The Flyer: Publication Dedicated to the Service of Selfridge Field Personnel," publication, 13 May-5 August 1943; various personal papers, 1944-1945; various photographs of Hinchliffe during her service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Marthalou Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0105
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various photographs of Hunter during her service for Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; various poetry written by Hunter.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0030
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.

Dates: 1944-1999

Dorothy H. Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0073
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 May 1999; various photographs of Jordan during her Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; various military papers, circa 1944; a Women's Army Corps booklet, 1984.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ellen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0130
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0142
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Edith Kimsey League Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0061
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 April 1999; a photograph of League in U.S. Army uniform, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Shirley McCorquodale Lyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0116
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 November 1999; various photographs of Lyle's Army Nurse Corps service, 1943-1955.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Judy McKinnon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0249
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944-2001

Bernice Moran Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0104
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Virginia Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0208
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 April oral history transcript; photocopies of Army Honorable Discharge and Certificate of Service, 1943 to 1945; portrait photograph of Miller in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform; photograph of Miller in dress; and photograph of Miller in Olive drap winter uniform, circa 1941 to 1944.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Emma Dale Newell Love Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0090
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Newell's Women's Army Corps service, 1944; scrapbook copies; various military papers, September 1944-October 1945; an oral history transcript, 4 June 1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Mattie Osborne Spicer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0107
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Spicer in Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944; the "Ronda" newsletter with Spicer's articles.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Dorothy Jane Rechel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0196
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 January 2001; magnetic tape and cassette tape labeled "Letter to Mother during Tet offensive, 1968"; and portrait photograph of Rechel in Army white dress uniform, circa early 1970s.

Dates: circa 1968-2001

Mildred Curtis Scott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0092
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.

Dates: 1943-1999

Norma Petree Shaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0217
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.

Dates: 1943, 1945, 2001

Davetter Shepard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0172
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 December 2000; portrait photograph of Shepard in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-2000

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

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

Millie Dunn Veasey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0176
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various photographs of Veasey's Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; personal papers, including resume, undated.

Dates: 1944-2000

Willie Mae Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0202
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; photograph of Williams in off-duty Women's Army Corps (WAC) dress with cap, circa 1944; a typed 4 page paper, "Women in the Military Services in the Past"; newspaper article (copy) of Williams on her 90th birthday, 2002 November 22; and additional items are available at Florida State University collections: https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/6/resources/494.

Dates: circa 1942-1945