World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents
Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates:
1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006
Women Veterans General Printed Materials and Video Recordings Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0002
Abstract
Recruiting brochures, publications, manuals and guides, postcards, ephemeral materials, posters, and video recordings purchased by University Archives and Manuscripts on a continuing basis supplement and complement the individual veterans collections in the Women Veterans Historical Collection. This collection includes various types of printed materials dating from 1864, and then World War I to 2018. The majority is from the Women's Army Corps, Women's Air Force, WAVES (Women Accepted for...
Dates:
1864, 1918-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1949