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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 1945 - 1948

 File — Folder 1
Identifier: WV 0475- File Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains correspondence from Helen to her family, one newspaper clipping, and one letter from her brother William. The letters that Cowgill wrote to her family detail her life in the Army, her service in various hospitals around the country, and the places where she was stationed.

Dates: 1945 - 1948

Mixed materials: clippings, event programs, handwritten notes, 1939-1965

 File — Document folder 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: WV 0457- File Folder 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains personal correspondence, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs and a graduation invitation. This collection primarily focuses on Lawrence's achievements practicing law in the Coast Guard and Navy, and as a civilian practicing Immigration Law. The photographs not only contain pictures of Lawrence, but also with her husband, with other SPARS or military personnel, and another person who is unnamed. Most of the collection consists of photographs,...
Dates: 1939-1965

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

Photographs, circa 1942-1946

 File — Document box, slim legal 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: WV 0492- File Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: circa 1942-1946

Scrapbook, 1943-1945

 Item — Scrapbook box, oversized 0712, Item: 1
Identifier: WV 0712- Item Item 1
Content Description From the Collection: The collection includes a scrapbook, 1943-1945. The album begins with a group of images of Eileen’s home life at a farm in Illinois, followed by photos from her time training as a nurse at Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Fort Dix, New Jersey and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The rest of the images mainly depict her time in England: the 231st hospital buildings at Morley Hall, Norfolk, nurses posing and relaxing on the hospital grounds, nurses at drill, an interior view of an orthopedic...
Dates: 1943-1945