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Dorothy Marshman Fredrickson papers, 1942-1946, Date acquired: 10/16/2007

 

Summary

Creator:
Fredrickson, Dorothy Marshman, 1924-2006
Extent:
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Dorothy Marshman Fredrickson papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_07_0117.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection pertains to Dorothy Marshman Fredrickson who served as a WAVE at the United States Navy Fleet Post Office in San Francisco, California. The collection contains letters from Fredrickson to her mother and sister. There are also photocopies of scrapbook pages as well as leisure photographs, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, menus, ticket stubs, railroad timetables, playbills, and show programs from the scrapbooks. The collection also contains periodicals and other publications from various sources, most concerning the Navy and/or WAVES, and WAVES rules and regulations handbooks.

Biographical / historical:

Dorothy Jane Marshman Fredrickson was born on July 15, 1924, in Deposit, New York, to Helen Pearsall Martin and William Daniel Marshman. Her father served in the Navy during both World Wars and was declared missing in action, later presumed dead, following the destruction of the USS Barton during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. In June of 1942, she graduated from Deposit Central High School. She then worked in the research laboratory of the American Casein Company (now known as AMCO Proteins) in Bainbridge, New York. Fredrickson enlisted as a WAVE in Birmingham in honor of her father shortly after her 20th birthday in July of 1943. She was sworn in in Rochester in late July.



Custodial history:

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

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], Dorothy Marshman Fredrickson papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_07_0117.

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