| Collection Name: |
Women Overseas Service Leagues |
| Repository Name: |
Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Schlesinger Library [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Dates Spanned: |
1983-1989 |
| Description: |
History notes : Founded in 1921, the Women’s Overseas Service League is a national organization of women who served overseas with the United States armed forces. In 1983 WOSL began a project entitled "Carry On: An Oral History of Women’s Overseas Service League Members."
Summary : Transcripts of interviews with Josephine Boecker, 1989; Helen Gram Forster, 1983; Winifred Gansel, n.d.; Lillian Kivela, 1986; Esther Stolt Lamb, 1984; Betty Leiby, 1985; and Belletta Paulson Vance, 1983. Also one publication re: the WOSL, n.d. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
4 |
| Finding Aid: |
Women Overseas Service Leagues |
| Broad Subjects: |
Women's Studies; Military; Wars and Conflicts |
| ASP Subjects: |
Oral history; United States; Women; Women's Overseas Service League; World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female; World War, 1914-1918--Women; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Women |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0001015 |
