Martha Stifler Waller Papers, 1941-1945..

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Martha Stifler Waller Papers, 1941-1945..

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Waller, Martha Huntington Stifler, 1920-; United States government employee. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1941. Papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs primarily documenting her professional and personal life during World War II, when she worked in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer in the United States War Department. Her letters include information about her social life in Washington, D.C., her courtship by and marriage to George Macgregor Waller, and the activities of her parents, William Warren Stifler and Susan Reed Stifler.

<1 box (2.5 linear ft.)

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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