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United States. Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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