Dorothee Gore papers 1904-1982

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Dorothee Gore papers 1904-1982

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4799

Dorothee Gore was a lesbian who lived in New York City in the 1930s and became a member of the Women s Army Corp (WAC) during World War II. The collection includes personal letters and notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia documenting her personal life and her life in the women's military in World War II. Many of the women she corresponded with during World War II were also in the military, and their letters detail camp life and women's general reactions to the service. Some letters also subtly refer to the investigation of lesbians in the military that took place at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1944. Her time in the military is also documented through photographs, an autograph book, her patches, and her discharge papers. Her papers also include documentation of her personal interest in Hollywood stars such as Greta Garbo, travel ephemera, religious ephemera, cocktail napkins, newspaper clippings, and animal stories.

4.6 linear ft. (11 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313804

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps

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The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, the wife of a prominent politician and publisher in Houston, Texas. About 150,000 American women served in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army. While conservative opinion in the leadership of...

Gore, Dorothee, 1908-1982.

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Dorothee Gore was a lesbian who lived in New York City in the 1930s and became a member of the Women s Army Corp (WAC) during World War II. From the description of Dorothee Gore Papers, 1904-1982. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122570439 From the guide to the Dorothee Gore papers, 1904-1982, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...