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United States. Army -- Nurses

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Mary F. Cannon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0411
Content Description

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.

Dates: 2008 April 24

Agnes Cantwell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0086
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a copy of a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp," 2 March 1945; various photographs of Cantwell's Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1946.

Dates: 1945-1999

Nancy M. Christ Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0408
Content Description

Nancy Margaret Christ of North Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1961 to 1981. Christ earned a Bronze Star for her service during the Vietnam War and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

This Collection includes 23 March 2008 oral history transcript; Tape of "Til the white dove flies alone" by Crystal Gayle made to commemorate the Vietnam Women's Memorial, Washington D.C. November 11, 1993.

Dates: 1993 November 11-2008 March 23

"Taps," the U.S. Army School of Nursing Class of 1929 Yearbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0737
Content Description The U.S. Army School of Nursing graduating class of 1929 at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland 134-page yearbook entitled "Taps" features messages from school officials, including First Lieutenant Mary W. Tobin, school commandant, photographs of staff, students and life on campus. The yearbook also features anecdotes about the operating room, dietitians, and night duty shifts. There is also poetry, a class will, class history, class prophecy, articles about U.S. Army and Navy nurses,...
Dates: 1929

Margaret Helen Clift Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0695
Content Description

Photograph album, photograph of the U.S.S. Hope company (stored in oversized flat file drawer) , Captain's chronology of the ship

Dates: 1942-1946

Beatrice L. Crisler Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0365
Content Description

This collection includes a letter dated 27 November 1943. Crisler describes her living conditions at her posting in India.

Dates: 1943 November 27

Mary Jane DeWan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0027
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 January 1999; various photographs of DeWan’s service with the Army Nurse Corps, 1943-1945; a newspaper clipping titled “Wedding Told” announcing her wedding, 4 December 1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Daphine Doster Mastroianni Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0038
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 February 1999; newspaper clippings; copies of correspondence; "L.O.D. Yes: An Odyssey of the Army's 18th General Hospital" book; military papers; newsletters; programs/mixed materials; photographs.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Janet Froome Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0120
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 November 1999; various correspondence, 1942-1944; various diary entries, 1942-1945; various military papers, 1941-1983; Memories of World War II, Froome interview with George L. McDermott; various photographs of Froome's Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Eileen E. Hallstein Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0712
Content Description 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

Mary Anson Hennessy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0575
Content Description

The collection includes am oral history transcript, 12 December 2014; 5 photographs of Hennessy, circa 1966-1968; a poem written by Hennessy titled "1967: Brooke Army Medical Center."

Dates: circa 1966-1968

Lillie M. Henson Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0068
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 April 1999.

Dates: 1999 April 24

Elna Allran Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0023
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Jones will serving with the Cadet and Army Nurse Corps, 1944-1947; various Navy publications, 1944-1945; 2 copies of Jones poetry, 1945-1947; various ephemera from locations Jones was stationed, 1945-1946; various holiday menus from military camps, 1945-1947; Cadet Nurse Patch With Caduceus Pin; Cadet Nurse Patch; Caduceus Pin; photograph album, 1945-1947 containing photographs from: Camp Rucker,...
Dates: circa 1944-1999

BJ Kramer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0582
Content Description

The collection includes a 22 April 2015 oral history transcript; a photograph of Kramer in uniform; 2 typed poems; military papers discussing a hospital remodel at Fort Riley and a copy of Vietnam's United States barracks; various newspaper clippings and full length issues, 1979.

Dates: circa 1961-1983

Lucile Griffin Leonard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0028
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 January 1999; various correspondence, including Victory Mail, September 1943-May 1945; various photographs of Leonard’s United States Army service as dietician, circa 1944-1945 and undated; various military papers, 1943-1946; a scrapbook documenting Leonard's Army service, 1943-1945; Griffin's Army Dietician olive drab uniform, 1942-1943.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1999

Eloise Rallings Lewis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0047
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 1999; various photographs of Lewis' Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1952; various military papers, 1945-1950; a Nurses' Guide handbook, 1945. There is an additional manuscript collection from Eloise Patricia Rallings Lewis at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/mss:MSS0128.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Louise MacLeod Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0702
Content Description

This collection includes Photograph album, photographs, letters.

Dates: 1946-1952

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

Jessie E. McIntyre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0237
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; copy of the statements from Franz Ziereis, a previous commander of Concentration Camps; photograph copy of an Army report from a concentration camp at Gosen #1, in the vicinity of Mauthausen detailing nationality, health conditions, numbers of the prisoners with detailed conditions of the camp when evacuated on May 14, 1945. Black and white photocopied photographs of the deceased prisoners in piles as the Army found them...
Dates: 1943-1945

Amie Modigh Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0480
Abstract

Amie Modigh (1933-2017), of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, served as a nurse in the United States Army Reserve 1965 to 1995. She served as commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center during Operation Desert Storm, and later retired as a colonel.

The collection includes a 2010 March 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2010 March 16

Maribeth Snyder Peters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0530
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 March 2012; various scanned photographs, circa 1968-1971.

Dates: 1969-2012

Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0033
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; various photographs of Ptaszynski’s Army Nurse Corps service as a surgical nurse, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Irene M. Rich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0361
Content Description

This collection includes 9 August 2006 oral history transcript; Institute of Medicine Publications on Breast Cancer Research from the Department of Defense with Irene listed in the Appendix (pg 113) having provided testimony to the committee, circa 1997; Strategies for Managing the Breast Cancer Research Program, circa 1993; Published paper written by Irene among others on the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program, dated 1998 .

Dates: 1993-1998, 2006

Paula K. Jackan Trivette Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0512
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2011; photographs and press clippings about Trivette; a student nurse cap.

Dates: 1987-2011

Frances Bradsher Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0236
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; various photographs of Frances' Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1971; a resume documenting rank, awards and service in Army.

Dates: 1951-1973

Mildred Parish Turton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0144
Content Description

The collection includes paperwork for Army Nurse Discharge, 21 August 1952.

Dates: 1952 August 21