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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0368
Abstract

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen joined the United States Navy WAVES in the summer of 1944. She worked in a United States naval hospital located in Seattle, Washington during World War II. Her scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, U.S. naval hospital newspapers called The Stethoscope, letters, postcards, patient tags, and drawings.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2006

Ellen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0130
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ruth C. Kropp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0292
Abstract

Ruth Cambric Kropp enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - Navy) in October 1942 and worked in communications and decoding at various installations until her discharge in November 1944.

This collection consists of five WAVES artifacts used by Ruth Kropp during her World War II service.

Dates: 1942 - 1944

Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0127
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0395
Scope and Contents

Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) of Easton, Pennsylvania, served as a recruiter and as a public relations officer in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.

This collection includes letters, postcards and Christmas cards from LaPlante to her parents about her career in the WAAC and the WAC from 1943-1944. The collection also contains a photograph album, and news clippings from LaPlante's time in the service.

Dates: 1942-1945

Louise MacLeod Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0702
Content Description

This collection includes Photograph album, photographs, letters.

Dates: 1946-1952

Betty Magnusson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0341
Scope and Contents Letters from Magnusson to a friend at home in Duluth, Minnesota, chiefly document Magnusson's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in Iowa, Virginia, and France. Letters from Fort Des Moines describe WAC uniforms; drills, including a gas mask drill; WAC facilities and buildings; and social activities at the fort and in Des Moines. Letters from Newport News detail Magnusson's perspective on the South and southerners; the reaction of male soldiers and civilians to the WACs; entertainment,...
Dates: 1943-1945

Marie M. Mason Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0510
Content Description

Marie M. Mason (b. 1916), of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, served overseas in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.

Dates: 2011 March 19

Mary Haynsworth Mathews Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0119
Scope and Contents

Mary Haynsworth Mathews was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1916. She served with the American Red Cross in England, France, and Germany from 1942 to 1946. Included in this collection are an oral history and photographs.

Dates: 1944-1999

Maggie V. McPherson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0123
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1943-1976

Janet Muriel Mead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0389
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.

Dates: 1940-1955

Irene A. Gepfert Mertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0517
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 May 2011 oral history transcript; 1 box, 2 scrapbooks.

Dates: 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2012

Margarette S. Miller Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0242
Abstract

Margarette S. Miller was the cousin of trumpeter Phyllis Widener, who played in Freddie Shaffer's Victory Sweetheart's All-Girl Band, which played for military bases and hospitals as part of the United Service Organization's camp shows during World War II. This scrapbook includes postcards, photographs, correspondence, newspapers advertisements and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1942 - 1946

Margaret Catherine Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0088
Abstract

Margaret Catherine Moore (1913-1975) was a Woman's College alumna, nurse and nurse educator after whom the UNCG School of Nursing building is named. The Margaret Catherine Moore Papers date from 1913 to 1982 and contain biographical material, diplomas and degrees, a high school annual, photographs, Moore's thesis from New York University, and World War II materials.

Dates: 1913 - 1982

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

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

Irene Parsons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0311
Content Description The collection includes a 2 August 2005 oral history transcript; a booklet titled "Alumni News: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro," Fall 1965; an article from the Topeka Paper titled "Luckily for 170,000 employes, she isn't typical boss-lady: North Carolina native holds highest personnel post ever held by woman," 5 September 1965; a booklet "Careers for Women...in the Veterans Administration," September 1973; a copy of Certificate for Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 4 June...
Dates: 1945; 1965-1973

Mary "Pat" Elizabeth Partridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0310
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, maps, patches, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and official documents pertaining to Partridge's Red Cross service.

Dates: 1935-1972

Eleanor K. Peck Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0420
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.

Dates: 1941-1943

Personal Correspondence, 1945 - 1946

 File — Document folder 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: WV 0423- File Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents.These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the...
Dates: 1945 - 1946

Ruth Kent Petker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0125
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Ruth Mary Petry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0319
Scope and Contents The Ruth Mary Petry Papers contain information about Petry's experience as a member of the WASP during World War II and her postwar involvement in the Order of Fifinella, the official WASP organization. The collection spans from 1940 to 1991, and most of the materials are from 1944 and focus specifically on World War Two WASP activities. Document formats in this collection include: personal letters from 1943 to 1949, certificates and official papers from 1940 to 1945, newsletters, newspapers...
Dates: 1940-1991 and undated

Geraldine Muse Phillips Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0129
Abstract

Geraldine Muse Phillips (b. 1927), of Birmingham, Alabama, and North Carolina served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from February 1949 until 1950.

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Phillips in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform at school in Fort Lee, Virginia, circa 1949.

Dates: circa 1949 to 1950

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

Marie Louise Pihlblad Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0326
Scope and Contents Marie Louise Pihlblad was a member of the Women's Army Corp (WAC) during World War II. Correspondence from Marie Louise Pihlblad begins in August 1942 and ends in April 1945. Letters detail Pihlblad's daily routine as a WAC; life in the WAC barracks and mess hall at Camp Lee; USO shows; her brief stay at Washington and Lee University where she attended military classes; and her social activities and personal travels. Described in detail are the WAC uniforms, including elements of design,...
Dates: 1942-1945

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

Helen Bolling Potts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0234
Content Description

Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.

Dates: 1943-1946, 2003

Jane Pritchard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0424
Scope and Contents

The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

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

Virginia Russell Reavis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0183
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.

Dates: 1943-2000

Mary McLeod Rogers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0134
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 1999; a booklet published for the Women Marines Association, circa 1992; various photographs of Rogers during her service with the Marines and after retirement, 1944-1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Lola H. Ryan Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0362
Scope and Contents

The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.

Dates: 1943-1945

Ellen L. Scott Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0380
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.

Dates: 1943-1945

Virginia Seipp Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0296
Content Description

This scrapbook contains mementoes and letters from Seipp's high school years through the completion of her training at the Hospital for Women of Maryland; including Cadet Nurse Corps brochures and handbooks.

Dates: 1941-1946

Eleanor Elizabeth House Selzo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0267
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945 and undated ; Military papers, 1944-1946; Back to Civvies booklet, circa 1945; Women's Reserve Information Separation Pamphlet, 1945; United States Naval Training School, Milledgeville, GA, circa 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-1947

Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0168
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.

Dates: 1943-2000

Shirley Ruth Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0318
Abstract Shirley R. Smith was a social worker in the American Red Cross from 1943 to 1945.Correspondence between Shirley R. Smith and her family and friends documents her service in the American Red Cross from 1943 to 1945. Letters in 1943 from Smith to her family in Wyoming, Ohio, describe her daily activities in great detail. Subjects in the spring of 1943 include her work with patients, a WAAC beauty shop, and a ceremony for Gray Ladies at her hospital in Indiana. Letters from...
Dates: 1941-1945

Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0146
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 February 2000; various photographs 1943-1944.

Dates: 1943-2000

The Inez Stroud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0009
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1994

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

Dorothy E. Wain Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0431
Scope and Contents

The Dorothy Wain Thompson collection includes photographs, military and personal papers, humorous writings, military guides, newspaper clippings, ephemera from her posting to England, songbooks, and a 1945 book about the history of the Air Force Unit. Also included are artifacts such as ribbons, medals, devices, pins, and insignia and patches.

Dates: circa 1943-1972; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2008

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

Shirley M. Tillson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0302
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly from Port Blakely, Washington, document Tillson's daily life with the WAVES. Subjects include her dates and social activities, particularly the USO (United Service Organization), a Women's Service Club, dances, and athletics; her family; the status of the war, including the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the German surrender; WAVES uniforms and uniform regulations; and her work as a radio operator. Tillson writes in detail about the opportunities the navy provides and about...
Dates: 1945

Katharine W. Toll Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0293
Abstract

Katharine Wolcott Toll of Amherst, Massachusetts, was a journalist. She served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.

The Katharine W. Toll Papers span from 1929 to the 1980s and primarily documents Katharine Toll's service in the WAVES during World War II.

Dates: circa 1929-1989 and undated

Frances Stanley Trembath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0492
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2010

Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0133
Abstract Rachel Twiddy (1917-2010), of Liberty, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Ford Ord, California, from 1942 until the fall of 1943.The collection includes a 13 December 1999 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Rachel in Army Nurse Corps uniform with garrison cap, 1942; photographs of Rachel with coworkers and patients at Hospital in Fort Ord, California during World War II, 1942-1943; photocopy of Rachel's Army Nurse Corps Identification Card;...
Dates: circa 1942 to 1943

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

Juanita Webster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0167
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 May 2000; a typed autobiography of Webster's service, 25 pages.

Dates: 1942-2000