United States. Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Organization
Found in 3 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
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