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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Laura G. Anderton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0026
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 January 1999; various photographs of Anderton's WAVES service, 1943-1946; correspondence with her mother, 14 August and 13 September 1945.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1999

Deborah Elizabeth Branson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0617
Scope and Contents

The Deborah Elizabeth Branson Papers date from 1970-2016, with the bulk from 1990-1993. The majority of items in the collection are related to issues about concerning the 1991 Tailhook sexual assault scandal, sexual harassment in the military, and women's positions in the military. The collection includes, transcripts, official military reports, training guides, military magazines, military advertisements, military comics, newspaper articles, envelope hat, and VHS videotapes.

Dates: 1970-2016

Laverne Carter Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0501
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 October 2010.

Dates: 2010 October 18

Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0574
Abstract

Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion (b. 1953) served in the United States Navy WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, from 1976 to 1980 .

Dates: 1976-1980

Louise Nash Dorsett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0017
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 1999; a copy of document from Navy's Bureau of Ships, April 1946; various photographs of Dorsett's service with the Navy WAVES, 1943-1945; a Navy WAVES uniform.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1946

Lois Betlach Filewood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0613
Scope and Contents

Uniforms, artifacts, books, publications, scrapbooks.

Dates: Other: 1943-1992

Charlesanna L. Fox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0049
Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials documenting her experience as a camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, NC, and at Pear Harbor, HI; along with various printed materials, including newspaper clippings and souvenirs, and an oral history transcript, 5 March 1999.

Dates: 1942-2008

Robin D. Hamilton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0606
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 April 2016; a Retirement Ceremony program, 9 April 2022.

Dates: 2016-2022

Laura Henry Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0458
Scope and Contents

The Laura Henry Scrapbook has one scrapbook and three separate pages of Mount Holyoke Songs. The scrapbook has a wooden cover with images of a United States navy ship on it. It has approximately 58 pages and contains newspaper clippings, cards, menus from military base holiday lunches, and Laura Henry's official military identification cards.

Dates: 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2009

Agnes "Scottie" Hudson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0339
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an interview, textiles, and photographs.

Dates: Other: 1961 - 2008

Alice Doretta Lentz Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0419
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of twenty-two personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse, which included receiving vaccinations and watching as German prisoners of war arrived at her base. The letters also discuss news regarding her friends and her patients.

Dates: 1945-1946

Janet Muriel Mead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0389
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.

Dates: 1940-1955

Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0087
Content Description

The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.

Dates: 1943-1999

Irene A. Gepfert Mertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0517
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 May 2011 oral history transcript; 1 box, 2 scrapbooks.

Dates: 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2012

Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0056
Scope and Contents Judith Bullock Nisbet was born in Red Springs, North Carolina, and served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services-Navy) from 1942 to 1943. An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent...
Dates: 1942-1999

Jane Pritchard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0424
Scope and Contents

The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

Marie S. Senzig Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0549
Abstract

Marie Senzig (b. 1957) served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1980 to 2008.

The collection includes a 2013 August 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2013 August 16