Papers, 1918-1958.

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Papers, 1918-1958.

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This collection contains Harris's papers relating to her career as a Navy nurse as well as materials that she collected herself. There are two folders of correspondence, consisting of Harris's orders and official correspondence. She collected clippings about the history of Navy nursing, Navy ships, and five passes from her service. Completing the collection is a scrapbook of clippings from the American Journal of Nursing listing new appointments, transfers, discharges, and deaths in the Navy Nurse Corps from 1933 to 1958.

0.25 cubic ft.

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7632195

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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