WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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