United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Elsie "Jane" Shero Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2015-013
Scope and Contents
Collection contains memorabilia from Elsie "Jane" Shero Davis' time in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), including photographs, patches, newsclippings, manuals, a recorded interview with Davis, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1940s
Harold H. Leake Collection on the U.S. Naval Training School at Oklahoma A & M College
Collection
Identifier: 1994-063
Scope and Contents
Collection contains Leake family correspondence (1930-1950) and correspondence, class rosters, course information, photographs of the students (WAVES) in the U.S. Naval Training School, Oklahoma A&M (1941-1945).
Dates:
1918 - 1951
Oklahoma State University Department of Military Studies (ROTC) Records
Collection
Identifier: 1996-101
Scope and Contents
Collection contains contracts and correspondence from the ROTC program at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. Also World War II material and WAVES info and unpublished histories of the ROTC.
Dates:
1917-ongoing
Oklahoma State University WAVES Correspondence, and Organizations, and Personnel Records
Collection
Identifier: 1995-006
Scope and Contents
Collection contains letters written by women who were trained in the Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service at Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) between the years 1942 and 1944. The letters were written as a result of a reference question to OSU’s Special Collections and University Archives. A woman came asking for photographs of the WAVES collection and published information in a WAVES publication that photographs were available through SCUA . Several women...
Dates:
1942 - 1999
WAVES Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1995-034
Scope and Contents
Collection contains photographs of Navy WAVES, Edith LePage and people and buildings at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1944-45. Collection also contains a copy of a handbook for Yeoman training and a mark of commendation from the U.S. Navy to Oklahoma A&M.
Dates:
1944 - 1945