Sherley Mae White Collection
Scope and Contents
The Sherley Mae White Papers contain an oral history, newsletters, photographs, and two scrapbooks containing photographs, documents, and notes about Sherley Mae West's service. In addition, the His Service Record scrapbook itself contains information about the military including slang, historical facts, and quotes.
Dates
- 1943-1945
- Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2010
Creator
- White, Sherley Mae (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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.
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Please see our Sensitive Materials Statement
Extent
1.17 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box, 1 scrapbook box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Sherley Mae White (1923-2014) served in the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS) from 1943-1945. She served as a drum major for the SPARS marching band at the Biltmore Training Station in Palm Beach, Florida. She later transferred to the Coast Guard Base in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Method of Acquisition
Gifted from Sherley Mae White.
Existence and Location of Originals
For digitized material see: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/sherley%20mae%20white/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/
Offensive Language Statement
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Processing Information
Processed by Brandi Mauldin.
- United States. Coast Guard.
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve -- Military life
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve -- Bands
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve -- Uniforms
- White, Sherley Mae
- Women and the military
- Women in war
- Women veterans
- Women veterans -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- Title
- Sherley Mae White Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Brandi Mauldin
- Date
- 11/27/2017
- 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