Stanford University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mildred Shearer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-01.0535
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal papers including letters, notes, sketches, newspaper articles, and a radio interview of Mildred Shearer about her work with the United Service Organization (USO) sketching servicemen. Almost 600 photostatic copies and a few original portraits are included as well. The letters are mainly thank you notes in which servicemen and family members of servicemen commend her for her sketches.
However, there are a few personal letters from friends and in one case, an entire collection of correspondence with one man in the Marines named Lieutenant Ralph Hunter Bennett. Her letters from Bennett are romantic in nature, unfortunately, they are abruptly cut...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1953; Other: Date acquired: 09/26/2001
Jean Simpson transcript
Collection — Single Folder Collections - 1999 Box 13 (99.0280-99.0299), Folder: 99.0287 - Folder 1
Identifier: 99.0287
Content Description
This collection relates to Jean Simpson, who worked at a Barrett and Hilp Contractors shipyard during World War II. This collection contains an oral transcript of an interview with Simpson, in which she shares her experience being a female worker during the war. She recalls events in the shipyard including wages, going up a Jacob's ladder and working with other minorites such as African-Americans and Asian-Americans. She then went to Stanford law school and worked with a civil attorney. Simpson also shares her exerience applying for an Air Force commission in December of 1950 and entering the Air Force in May of 1951, where she served for twenty years.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1951; Other: Date accessioned: 1999-02-01
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- Afghanistan--History--20th century 1
- African Americans--Employment 1
- Air mail service 1
- Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944 1
- B-29 (Bomber) 1
- Bataan (Philippines : Province) 1
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Canada--History, Military--20th century. 1
- Canadian Infantry Corps Petawawa, Ontario Canada 1
- Douglas DC-4 (Transport plane) 1
- Guam--History, Military 1
- Illustrators. 1
- Iwo Jima 1
- Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Kolkata (India) 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Kundu Pantheon, India 1
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