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This series brings together various documents kept by Mary from her WWII military service overseas. Several travel booklets are undated and presumed to have been collected by Mary during the war, unless she later went to Western Europe again.

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This series brings together various documents kept by Mary from her WWII military service overseas. Several travel booklets are undated and presumed to have been collected by Mary during the war, unless she later went to Western Europe again.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series brings together various documents kept by Mary from her WWII military service overseas. Several travel booklets are undated and presumed to have been collected by Mary during the war, unless she later went to Western Europe again.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

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Correspondence with Lieutenant James R. "Jim" Bellace. Jim writes from Great Britain and talks about entertainment and social life

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Correspondence with Lieutenant Mark L. Cathy. Writing from various air force training camps in the US, Mark is a friend of Mary's and seems romantically interested in her.

Correspondence with Gertie Guggenheimer.

A friend living in New York city, Gertie appears to work as a secretary in an office. She writes to congratulate Mary on her engagement to Allen and advises her to choose Allen over her studies in New Orleans. Gertie also writes about her worries for her relatives in Europe. Her fiance's parents are still in England and Gertie is trying to get her mother out of Germany.

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Valentines from Southern Baptist Hospital Patients or Colleagues. One valentine from "patient Patches" and a love letter from a "Rosanna" ("Rosie-Anne") on paper with Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, LA, letterhead.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, letters, and photographs of Mary Frances Switzer (1919-2005) of Florida who served as a World War II army nurse in France, Belgium, and Germany. After a pre-war nursing degree completed in New Orleans, Mary spent time training in military camps in the United States and England. The collection comprises letters written during the war by Mary to her parents while she was abroad, in which she describes life in army camps and combat zones, leisure activities while on break, and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, letters, and photographs of Mary Frances Switzer (1919-2005) of Florida who served as a World War II army nurse in France, Belgium, and Germany. After a pre-war nursing degree completed in New Orleans, Mary spent time training in military camps in the United States and England. The collection comprises letters written during the war by Mary to her parents while she was abroad, in which she describes life in army camps and combat zones, leisure activities while on break, and the...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series brings together various documents kept by Mary from her WWII military service overseas. Several travel booklets are undated and presumed to have been collected by Mary during the war, unless she later went to Western Europe again.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series brings together various documents kept by Mary from her WWII military service overseas. Several travel booklets are undated and presumed to have been collected by Mary during the war, unless she later went to Western Europe again.

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1924 Football admission ticket and undated pamphlet "Decorations and Medals of the United States of America."

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Living in Michigan, Allen Galer, born 1918, was Mary's longtime suitor and fiance, though Mary broke the engagement. Allen's numerous letters over the years follow their courtship and the difficulties their long-distance relationship faced. As both corresponded while students, the sub-series also documents college social life in the late 1930s. Allen's letters later tell of his experience training as an army pilot during the war.

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Fails his tests to be pilot, returns to ground forces.

Correspondence with Julian Lansdale Jr.

Two letters giving various news. Julian refers to Mary as "an old girl friend."

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises more than 830 photographs documenting Mary's experience as an army nurse during the war. They show nurses and soldiers in army camps, on the road as they travel in Europe, training with weapons, and playing games. They also show cityscapes and landmark buildings, as well as wartime landscapes with bombed towns. The photographs are organized thematically, when possible according to the identified individuals or locations. However, most photographs do not have any caption...