Papers, 1931-1964 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1931-1964 (inclusive).

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This collection includes biographical information, correspondence, information about the Women's Land Army and the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and 238 of Bonney's photographs.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 7095194

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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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...

Women's Land Army (Great Britain)

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The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. It was disbanded in 1919 but revived in June 1939 under the same name to again organise women to replace workers called up to the military during the Second World War....

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Bonney, Therese

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Internationally-known war correspondent, photographer, and philanthropist, Bonney attended the University of California, received an M.A. in Romance Languages from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in 1920. She lived in Europe, working as a photographer and photographic researcher. During World War II, Bonney was a war journalist and published a series of photographs depicting the ordeals of Europeans during the war. After the war she translated European plays for the American theatre, tried...