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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Jaenn Coz Bailey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0141
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 2000; Navy military papers, 1944-1946; various correspondence, 1945-1946; various photographs of Bailey's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1946; various newspaper clippings, 1943-1946; personal memoirs of Bailey's WAVES service, undated.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0452
Content Description

The collection includes digitized photographs of Cooley in uniform, circa 1944-1947; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) garrison cap insignia and collar insignia; a 12 March 2009 oral history transcript.

Dates: circa 1944-1947

Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0209
Content Description 1 May 2001 oral hIstory transcript; Navy WAVES Newsletter "Sounding Off" dated June 22, 1943; photocopy of Booklet "How to serve your county in the WAVES of SPARS" (not dated) Patricia is photographed in this publication; Marching to Victory Booklet of songs and hymns for enlisted Navy WAVES servicemembers; various newspaper clippings 1943-1945; photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Navy Captian during WAVES review,1942; photograph of Patricia in front of the Northampton Tavern while...
Dates: 1942-1945

Ellen Mercer Diming Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0229
Content Description

The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Mary Ann Henning Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0102
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 July 1999; various Navy military papers, 1944-1946; a portrait photograph of Moore in Navy WAVES uniform, circa 1945; a transcription from "Virginia Society Dames in the Military," 1991.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Olene Brumbles Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0190
Content Description

The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.

Dates: 1943-1945

Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0213
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2001; Artifact Box contains: 1 ID Bracelet, lapel pin, collar devices, devices, brass buttons,sleeve stripe braid, V-Mail, 1944; portrait photograph of Erma in Navy WAVES uniform, 1944; various photographs of Erma during service, 1943-1946; Midshipman school yearbook, 1943-44; Naval Reserve ID Card; Official Service Certificates, 1943-1946; Navy Benefits information; Havelock WAVES Newsletter, 1943; New Testament pocket bible; WAVES...
Dates: 1943-2001

Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0127
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Nell Smith Lutz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0160
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."

Dates: circa 1943-2003

Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0227
Content Description

The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.

Dates: 1944-1967

Rosetta McMahon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0393
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 2007; scan of portrait photograph of McMahon in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2007

Ruth Kent Petker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0125
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Eleanor Rigney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0101
Content Description

The collection includes The Havelock newsletters, photographs, military papers, biographical materials, Identification Tag, 1943; Good Conduct Medal,1946; Patches,1943-1946; Ribbons, 1943-1946; "Ruptured Duck" Discharge Pin, 1946.

Dates: circa 1943-1951

Irja Miriam Ripatte Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0351
Content Description

Scrapbook with Waves service photographs; newspaper clippings , circa 1942-1943; Headshot of Irja Miriam Ripatte wearing a WAVES service dress blue uniform and soft brimmed enlisted cap, not dated.

Dates: circa 1942-1943

Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0203
Content Description

The collection includes 2 photographs of Schuck in uniform, circa 1943 to 1946; personal correspondence, 1942 December to 1947 July 4; Navy WAVES Newsletter, circa 1944; Conning Tower United States Naval Training School publication, circa 1944; Freemason Newsletter Ohio, circa 1944; and various newspaper clippings, 1943.

Dates: circa 1942-1947

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

Annis Glendon Weir Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0148
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 February 2000; various photographs and copies of Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-2000.

Dates: 1944-2000

Elizabeth Ryan Wiviott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0008
Content Description

The collection includes 2 full newspaper publications, February 1945; various invitations to events on the U.S.S. Franklin and U.S.S. Shangri-La, 1944; a songbook for the WAVES, February 1943; various photographs, 1944; a thank you letter from a Mrs. Doolittle for attending luncheon, February 1944; 2 letters from UNC Greensboro, 1992 and 1998; a Navy WAVES dress uniform with Havelock and a white leather class jacket from her graduation at the UNC Woman's College, 1942.

Dates: 1942-1998

Louise Ross Yegge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0242
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Louise and husband, John, circa 1943-1945; an oral history transcript, 25 January 2002.

Dates: 1943-1945