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Elizabeth "Betsy" Blee Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0538
Abstract
Elizabeth "Betsy" Summer Blee (b. 1951) served in Ground Supply and as a Mess Officer in the Marine Corps from 1975-1981, and in the Marine Corps Reserves from 1981-1997. Included are her papers, artifacts and pictures from her time in the military, largely focusing on the 1970s.
Dates:
1960-1993; Majority of material found within 1975-1993; Other: Date acquired: 2012 September 21
Jane Gail Brister Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0115
Scope and Contents
The Brister Papers contains a significant amount of of printed materials and photos, primarily from her time stationed in Germany in 1945-1946, 1951-1954, and 1959-1961. These document her tours in the European Theater Intelligence School, the Intelligence Center at Camp King, the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (HQ SHAEF), and the Soviet intelligence training school. Her experiences at Fort Oglethorpe; the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; Army...
Dates:
1943-1999
Elizabeth Cannon Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0739
Scope and Contents
June 2023 oral history interview and transcript
Dates:
June 15, 2023
"Taps," the U.S. Army School of Nursing Class of 1929 Yearbook
Collection
Identifier: WV 0737
Content Description
The U.S. Army School of Nursing graduating class of 1929 at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland 134-page yearbook entitled "Taps" features messages from school officials, including First Lieutenant Mary W. Tobin, school commandant, photographs of staff, students and life on campus. The yearbook also features anecdotes about the operating room, dietitians, and night duty shifts. There is also poetry, a class will, class history, class prophecy, articles about U.S. Army and Navy nurses,...
Dates:
1929
Saundra Creen Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0741
Scope and Contents
June 2023 oral history interview and transcript
Dates:
June 15, 2023
Millie Freeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0740
Scope and Contents
June 2023 oral history interview and transcript
Dates:
June 15, 2023
Caroline Morrison Garrett Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0426
Scope and Contents
The collection includes materials created and/or used by Caroline Morrison during her time serving as a dietetic student at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and as a dietitian in the Army Medical Corps from 1944 through 1947.The collection contains correspondence, educational materials, military records, newspaper clippings, photographs, pins and patches, publications, scrapbooks and an oral history...
Dates:
1941-1948
Mattie Donnell Hicks Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0044
Abstract
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966.Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training...
Dates:
1942-1999
Karen L. Chin Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0743
Scope and Contents
August 2023 oral history interview and transcript
Dates:
1976 - 2023
Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0056
Scope and Contents
Judith Bullock Nisbet was born in Red Springs, North Carolina, and served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services-Navy) from 1942 to 1943. An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent...
Dates:
1942-1999
Lillian M. Pimlott Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0219
Abstract
Lillian Mary Pimlott, a Trenton, New Jersey native, joined the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in March 1943 as an ensign and retired years later as a lieutenant commander in the navy.Correspondence, military papers, photographs, and printed material primarily document Lillian Pimlott's 1943-1946 service in the WAVES and her continued military service in the naval reserves. Letters to family and friends describe Pimlott's 1937 travels to England,...
Dates:
1937-1968
Carrie Radnik Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0269
Abstract
Carrie Radnik of Montrose, Alabama, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Collection includes oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea in the early 1940s.
Dates:
1942-1945, 2003
Jessica Rambo Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0653
Content Description
The collection includes a 20 March 2019 oral history transcript; a woodland camouflage maternity uniform pants with long sleeve shirt; 2 green short sleeve tee shirts; khaki dress short sleeve shirt with rank patches on arms; 2 khaki dress short sleeve shirt without rank patches; 2 khaki dress long sleeve shirt with rank patches on arms; maternity dark green pressed pants; 2 dark green pressed pants; grey Eisenhower style jacket; a desert maternity uniform with pants and a long sleeve shirt;...
Dates:
circa 2006-2016
Molly Thavenet Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: WV 0429
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, newsletters, official military communications and records, and clippings primarily related to Thavenet's service in the WAAC and WAC, primarily with the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.The correspondence is from Thavenet to her family describing her experiences in the service. There are also letters to Thavenet from family and friends from home and fellow WACs, as well as post-war correspondence up to 1950.
Included...
Dates:
1940-1950
Winona Franklin Walker Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0284
Scope and Contents
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 July 2003; 3 scrapbooks that contain a number of photographs, postcards, travel brochures, and correspondence. Locations visited by Walker in her scrapbooks include: Bremen, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland.
Dates:
1945-1964, 2003; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1965
Sandra Webb Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0731
Scope and Contents
June 2023 oral history interview and transcript
Dates:
February 9, 2023
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