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Dell Dinneen collection, 1943-1946, Date acquired: 06/18/2001, bulk 1943-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Dinneen, Dell
Extent:
4.00 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Dell Dinneen collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0276.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes letters, photocopies of 2 personal scrapbooks, and photographs related to Dell Dinneen who served as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II in the European and Mediterranean Theaters with the 61st Field Hospital.

Biographical / historical:

Dell M. Dinneen-Argast was born in New Richland, Minnesota on February 26, 1900. Prior to the war, Dinneen worked as a registered nurse in St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Dinneen joined the Army Nurse Corps on December 29, 1943. On December 29,1943, she was inducted at St. Paul, Minnesota. She began her training in Camp Fort Carson, Colorado. Then she was stationed at the following locations: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Winter General Army Hosital (7th Service Command) Topeka, Kansas;  Camp Ellis, Illinois; New York, NY; and Liverpool, Exeter, and Plymouth, England.

Acquisition information:

Sheila Hopp

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Dell Dinneen collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0276.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA