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Box 2

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Party Invitation, 1944 November

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: id267626
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.

Dates: 1944 November
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Army Papers and Wartime Ephemera

Ephemera, 1924, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: id267638
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1924, undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Army Papers and Wartime Ephemera

Letters, 1944 August-1945 November

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: id266804
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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.

Dates: 1944 August-1945 November
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Correspondence / Letters from Allen Galer to Mary, 1937-1945

Letters, 1944 June-July

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id266796
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1944 June-July
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Correspondence / Letters from Allen Galer to Mary, 1937-1945

Julian Lansdale Jr., 1937-1940

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: id266868
Correspondence with Julian Lansdale Jr.

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

Dates: 1937-1940
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Correspondence / Letters to Mary from Various Friends and Relatives, 1937-1946

Informal Wartime Portraits of Mary F. Switzer

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: id267644
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...
Dates: 1911-1946; Majority of material found in 1937-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Photographs

Informal Portrait of Allen Galer

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: id267646
Scope and Contents

Informal portrait of Allen Galer. Includes a note from him on the back.

Dates: 1911-1946; Majority of material found in 1937-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Photographs

Informal Portraits of Soldier "Dimples", 1945, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Identifier: id267652
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...
Dates: 1945, undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Mary Frances Switzer Papers / Photographs