WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Anne Huheey Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0314
Scope and Contents
Letters to family and friends chiefly document Anne Huheey's service with the American Expeditionary Forces in the spring of 1919. Repeated themes include news of family and friends, both those at home and other nurses serving overseas; the weather; various illnesses; and diversions such as horseback riding and tennis. Hospital wards and patients are occasionally mentioned.Also included are letters from friends serving overseas. Letters from her female friends describe a dance;...
Dates:
1918-1919
Dr. Mary Emily Lapham Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0418
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of letters written by Mary Lapham during her time with the Red Cross. The letters document Lapham's day-to-day activities from March 1918, when her ship sailed from New York City, until she returned to the United States in January 1920. The letters are posted from Paris, La Rochelle, and towns across Brittany in France; also, Prague, Petrovatz, Marienbad, and the Children's Camp at Nizni Smokovec in Czechoslovakia.In addition to the letters from...
Dates:
1917-1920
M. A. Lincoln Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0304
Scope and Contents
Two 1917 letters describe Lincoln's desire to return home in the fall of 1917 to join the U.S. Army and her fears that she will not return in time to secure a favorable post.
Dates:
1917 July-August
Clara Fredere Sullivan Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0450
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an album of photographs taken during Clara's time in the Army Nurse Corps, a copy of handwritten reminiscences, a copy of her certificate of identity from the War Department, and a medical kit.
Dates:
1918-1919
United States Enlisted Woman's World War I Service Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0344
Abstract
This photograph album contains pictures predominately of one United States enlisted woman during World War I as she travels through France. There are photographs of other enlisted members as well as a captioned photograph of a ship which they likely traveled on to Scotland.
Dates:
1917-1918; Other: Date acquired: 2010