Margaret Ellen "Daisy" Pickman Correspondence
Dates
- 1923-1949
Creator
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Biographical / Historical
Margaret Ellen "Daisy" Pickman (1917-2008), of Bedford, Massachusetts, served as an American Red Cross recreation station worker in the South Pacific from 1943-1945. Pickman was a Radcliffe and Yale Drama School graduate from a prominent New England family. She joined the American Red Cross and was posted to Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia where she worked at a recreation center. Pickman was later assigned to set up and staff Red Cross recreation centers in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines. She returned to the U.S. in October 1945. In June 1946, she married former Coast Guard Officer Gilbert Oakley, Jr. The collection contains 252 letters to and from Margaret Daisy Pickman from 1932-1946.
Extent
0.08 Linear Feet (2 document boxes containing 252 letters.)
Language of Materials
English
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Condition Description
The condition is fair.
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- Title
- Margaret Ellen "Daisy" Pickman Correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Victoria Hinshaw.
- Date
- 2023 September
- 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