Margaret Virginia Briggs collection : albums/scrapbooks and publications, 1945-1946.

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Margaret Virginia Briggs collection : albums/scrapbooks and publications, 1945-1946.

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Collection contains two scrapbooks, two publications, The Helm; (Mechanicsburg, Pa. : WAVES Naval Supply Depot, 1946) and While so serving by Eleanor Hart and Harriet Welling; (New York : Robert W. Kelly Publishing Corp.), and twelve additional photographs.

.8 linear ft.

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7367803

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve

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The United States entered WWII in 1941 and soon faced a serious shortage of manpower in the military. Congress, along with public interest and advocacy from various national organizations, forced the Department of the Navy (over considerable internal resistance) to start accepting women into their service to augment the many thousands of men already active in the war effort. On June 24, 1942, Congress passed an act to create a women's reserve as a branch of the Naval reserve; to be governed by ...

Briggs, Margaret Virginia.

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Margaret Virginia Briggs was born on July 1, 1911, to John Kelley and Nellie Fortune Waters Briggs near Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas. She graduated from Hope High School, Arkansas, in 1930 and studied for a year at the Evanston Art Institute in Illinois and later at the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio. Not being able to secure a job as an artist, Briggs began working for Frigidaire Company, Dayton, Ohio, in 1931. She joined the WAVES in the United States Navy Reserve in May 1945 and kept a very d...