Mary Cooper Floyd Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 March 1999; newspaper article from the "610 Project: The Special Devices Association," circa 1946.
Dates
- circa 1946-1999
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Mary Elizabeth Cooper Floyd of Leaksville-Spray, North Carolina, performed clerical work while serving in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.
Mary Elizabeth Cooper Floyd was born in Critz, Virginia, and raised in Leaksville-Spray, North Carolina. She attended Leaksville-Spray High School and then performed clerical work in a cotton mill in Spray.
Floyd enlisted in the WAVES and completed basic training at Hunter College in New York. She was stationed in Washington, D.C., where she worked in the Radar Section of the Office of Research and Invention. She was later transferred to Long Island, New York, where she continued her clerical work, primarily taking dictation.
Floyd returned home after being discharged in 1945. She attended McClung business school in Greensboro on the GI Bill. While there, she met and married her husband, who had also been in the navy. She went on to do clerical work at General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC), but resigned after her marriage. The Floyds went on to have two daughters and a son and continued to live in Greensboro.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Navy -- History
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
- United States. Navy -- Women
- United States. Navy--Women
- Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES)
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Mary Cooper Floyd Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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