Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- United States
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth Rutledge Bacon Collection
The collection includes a WAC plaque, 1954; photographs of Bacon’s service with the Women's Army Corps; various military papers, 1948-1962; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1952, 1978.
Mary F. Cannon Collection
Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.
This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.
Dorothy Coley Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.
Blossom Ellis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2007; photographs of Blossom in United States Air Force Nurse uniform, circa 1953-1954; official discharge paperwork, 1962.
Jane Heins Escher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; various photographs of Escher’s WAVES service, 1951-1953; 9 photocopies of graduation ceremony scrapbook; a Naval Training Center publication, 1941.
Audrey Ann Fisher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Fisher's time in the Army, 1973-1974; a copy of a Times Herald article, 1974; handwritten speech for Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 2013.
Eleanor Steinhebel Gurney Collection
Eleanor Gurney (b. 1934), of Detroit, Michigan, served in the Women Marines from May 1953 until 1954.
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and 2 photographs, 1 with Gurney and 1 with Gurney and friend at Parris Island, 1953.
Annie R. Gwynn Collection
Annie R. Gwynn (1901-1993) served in the U.S. Women's Army Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Included in the collection are army manuals, textiles, and immunization records.
Louise Martin Harrison Uniform
The collection includes a raincoat, circa 1951.
Mattie Donnell Hicks Collection
Valeria F. Hilgart Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 2000; a photograph of Hilgart's Marine Corps service, 1980.
Joan R. Kammer Horton Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 2000; various photographs of Horton during her service and wedding, 1953-1957; newspaper clipping copies of Horton's sharpshooter abilities, 1954-1956; navy blue marine service cap; green cap; green blouse with 2 green light weight jackets; olive green neck tie; green cloth wallet; green lined hooded trench coat.
Paula J. Johnson Collection
The collection includes 3 photograph copies of Johnson in uniform during her training in Washington, D.C., circa 1952; 3 photograph copies of Johnson's husband, Gene, circa 1953; an 8 June 2001 oral history transcript.
Linda R. Jones Collection
This collection includes April 2011 oral history transcript; a journal, Jan-Feb 1991; photocopies of travel authorizations; photocopy of Third United States Army's Central Region Area Orientation booklet; photocopy of a photograph of Jones in uniform; Red Cross-issued deck of cards; and Red Cross desert camouflage uniform (jacket, pants with belt, daisy mae hat,boots).
Anna Kalar Textiles
This collection includes one white glove, a button, and a white scarf.
Marie Kevensky Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Lunary Love Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 April 2000.
Louise MacLeod Collection
This collection includes Photograph album, photographs, letters.
Maggie V. McPherson Collection
The collection includes printed materials; including newsletters; booklets; yearbooks; and clippings especially from her time in Korea. Also, it includes 3 scrapbooks that document McPherson's Red Cross service, 1947-1959; additional scrapbook of club service at Double Five, Osan, Korea, 1959-1960.
Ellen Brown Steel Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.
Grace Swank Alexander Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.
June Thomas Swearengin Collection
This collection includes June 2014 oral history transcript; copies of newspaper clippings; and copy of her book "The Question: Give up or Get up?"
JoAnn Sesher Webb Collection
This collection includes August 2013 oral history transcript. and photographs.