World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Mary C. Dickson Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0465
Scope and Contents
This collection contains paperwork detailing standard regulations of the United States Marines Women's Reserve (USMCWR), personal and official correspondence, newsletters, song lyrics, personnel sheets, an ID card, a bumper sticker, and a photograph. The personal letters written by Dickson to her family talk about her travel experiences and life in the Marines; however most of the collection consists of official correspondence. There is one photograph of her sitting at her desk with her...
Dates:
1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2009
Mary Cugini Necko Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0094
Scope and Contents
The Mary Cugini Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, military papers, Necko's poems, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, copies of the newsletters The U.S. Marine Corps Beachhead and The Marine Corps Women's Reserve The Word, a 1999 oral history recording and transcript, and textiles.
A scrapbook from her time in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve has been digitized.
Dates:
1942-1999; Other: Date acquired: 06/17/1999
Photograph, 1943 December
File — Document folder 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: WV 0465- File Folder 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains paperwork detailing standard regulations of the United States Marines Women's Reserve (USMCWR), personal and official correspondence, newsletters, song lyrics, personnel sheets, an ID card, a bumper sticker, and a photograph. The personal letters written by Dickson to her family talk about her travel experiences and life in the Marines; however most of the collection consists of official correspondence. There is one photograph of her sitting at her desk with her...
Dates:
1943 December
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