Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1943 - 1946
Creator
- Wilkin, Lauretta Webster (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical Note
Extent
.10 Linear Feet (5 folders (60 items) )
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Wilkin's military service. Subjects include basic training; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation. Photographs are of individual and groups of WACs in uniform.
Arrangement Note
Method of Acquisition
Offensive Language Statement
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Processing Information
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Uniforms
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Uniforms
- Wilkin, Lauretta Webster
- Women in war
- Women soldiers -- Kentucky -- Correspondence
- Women veterans -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
Creator
- Wilkin, Lauretta Webster (Person)
- Title
- Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Beth Carmichael
- Date
- 07/20/2005
- 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