Maggie V. McPherson Collection
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
Creator
- McPherson, Maggie V. (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.
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Biographical Note
Maggie V. McPherson (b. 1909) is a graduate of Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (now UNCG). During World War II, McPherson volunteered with the American Red Cross, which assigned her to various service clubs for U.S. military personnel. After the war, McPherson joined the Special Services to operate Army service clubs. From 1949 to 1951, she directed Air Force service clubs in Guam and Japan. From 1951 through the mid-1970s, she served in the Recreation Center at Osan Air Base in Korea.
Extent
2.46 Linear Feet (2 archival boxes, 2 scrapbook boxes, 1 archival box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Method of Acquisition
Gift of McPherson's family in November 1999. Delivered by Laura Pitts of the university's Development Office.
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Processing Information
Linda Jacobson, January 2000 Edited by Brandi Mauldin, 2017
- American Red Cross
- American Red Cross
- American Red Cross -- Interviews
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Female
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- United States
- McPherson, Maggie V.
- United States. Air Force Services
- United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Female
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae
- Women and the military
- Women in war
- Women veterans
- Women veterans -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- Title
- Maggie V. McPherson Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Cat S. McDowell. Edited by Brandi Mauldin, 2017.
- Date
- 08/20/2017
- 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