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Lane Carlson Papers
Identifier: MS 00004
Scope and Contents Papers, 1937-1972, of Colonel Bonnie "Lane" Carlson, originally from Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. Colonel Lane Carlson was one of the first five female colonels in the United States Army. Primarily includes letters written to and from her parents throughout her life, beginning with her time at Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia, various military bases, postwar Japan and West Germany. Some of the topics discussed in the letters include base life during the war, the experience of a commissioned...
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Warner Family Papers
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.251
Scope and Contents Diaries, accounts and address book of Anna P. (Anne) Warner (b. 1876) of Washington D.C. and Rebecca P. (Bess) Warner, sisters of Washington, D.C. The sisters came from a well-off family and traveled extensively in Europe. They remained single and shared an apartment. It has not been determined if one of the two 1899 diaries and the address book were kept by one of the sisters or by another family member. Most of the diaries contain detailed entries on their travels abroad,...
Subject: Women--Diaries X
Subject: Germany--Description and travel--20th Century X
Address books 1
Blind Women--Travel 1
China--Description and travel 1
Europe--Description and travel--19th century 1
France--Description and travel--20th century 1
Germany--Description and travel--19th century 1
Italy--Description and travel--19th century 1
Japan--Description and travel 1
Memoranda 1
Obituaries 1
Single women--United States--Conduct of life 1
Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century 1
Women and the military 1
Women soldiers--Correspondence 1
Women travelers--Diaries 1
Women--Travel 1
World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States 1
Carlson, Lane, 1919-2010 1
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1
United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 1
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