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Carolyn Newby Finger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0057

Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 March 1999; various photographs of Finger's Navy WAVES service, 1942-1944; a book, USS Tulagi (GVE-72), 1943-1946; cartoon print; various WAVES song sheets, undated; a company newsletter from Vick's Chemical Company, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1 July 1943; a cap device; 10 military patches; a plain gold ensign collar device; cap device on blue wool; a small plastic box containing label for Edward Legum Furniture Co.; a Navy wool cap.

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 1942-1999

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.

Biographical / Historical

Carolyn Newby Finger (1922-2003) of Newton, North Carolina, a long-time school teacher, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1946.

Carolyn Newby Finger was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Newton, North Carolina. After graduating from high school in 1937, she attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She graduated in 1941 and then taught school and worked in a bank in Kings Mountain.

Finger joined the WAVES in 1944. She went to midshipmen's school at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated as an ensign in July 1944. After a month of temporary duty at Philadelphia Naval Air Station, she attended Supply School at Radcliffe College in Boston, Massachusetts, from October to December 1944.

In January 1945, Finger was assigned to the disbursing office at a convalescent hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. When the hospital was decommissioned in March 1946, Finger left the military.She married Carl Finger in June 1946 had two children. She then returned to teaching high school for another twenty-eight years. Finger passed in 2003.

Extent

3.21 Linear Feet (2 folders, textile box )

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.

Title
Carolyn Newby Finger 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

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