Margaret M. MacGill diaries and scrapbook, 1944-1949.

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Margaret M. MacGill diaries and scrapbook, 1944-1949.

Six pocket diaries and a scrapbook kept by MacGill while working as a young secretary in World War II-era Washington, D.C.

0.25 cubic ft. (1 container)

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St. John's Church (Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.)

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MacGill, Margaret M., 1919-

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A lifelong resident of the Washington area, Margaret M. MacGill is the only child of Ernest Costello O?Meara, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, and the former Bertha May Beach, an employee of Kann?s Department Store and rooming house manager. Raised in Petworth at 528 Taylor Street, NW, MacGill graduated from Roosevelt High School and the Washington School for Secretaries before beginning a career as a secretary. At the time these diaries and scrapbook were kept, MacGill lived with her p...

United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...