Bessie L. Herbert Collection
Scope and Contents
Photograph album contains pictures of Bessie L. Herbert and friends in various poses during her service in the WAC in World War II. Photos were taken at Camp Grant, Illinois; Fort Sheridan, Illinois; on leave in Brookfield, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; and downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Includes some photos of Herbert's family and many of her WAC colleagues. Topics include Herbert posing in front of a WAAC recruitment poster; scenery around Camp Grant in the winter of 1943-44 and the spring of 1944; St. Paul's church in winter; and various buildings at the camp, including barracks, kitchen, office, headquarters, and beauty parlor.
Dates
- 1943-1944
Creator
- Herbert, Bessie L. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
.20 Linear Feet (1 photograph album)
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 Natalie Greenberg in 2004.
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Processing Information
Processed by Heath Gardner, September 2004.
- Herbert, Bessie L.
- United States. Army--Women
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- 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
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Bessie L. Herbert Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Heath Gardner
- Date
- 03/01/2007
- 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