Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
Content Description
The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.
Dates
- circa 1940s
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
Mary Markarian Charpentier (1900-1996), of Nashua, New Hampshire, served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1945 as a medical technician. Mary Markarian Charpentier (1900-1996) served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1945. She did her basic training at Fort Ogelthorpe, Georgia and was assigned to Fort Devens in Massachusetts as medical technician.
After her discharge from the WAC, Charpentier continued to work at the Fort Devens hospital until it closed in 1952." She then worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Concord Massachusetts until 1965. Charpentier then taught vocational courses for the University of New Hampshire extension classes and also served in the New Hampshire State Legislature from 1978-1996.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 Document Folder: includes 4 Folders.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Victoria Hinshaw
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Victoria Hinshaw
- Date
- 2022 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository