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Winifred Lund Caraway collection, 1941-1946, Date accessioned: 1998-12-28

 

Summary

Creator:
Caraway, Winifred Lund, 1923-2002
Caraway, Winifred Lund, 1923-2002
Extent:
1 Linear Feet 1 full box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Winifred Lund Caraway collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_98_0838

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Corporal Winifred Lund Caraway who served with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. This collection contains scrapbooks, letters, postcards and photographs sent and collected by Caraway throughout World War II.

Biographical / historical:

Winifred Lund Caraway was born on September 14, 1923 and served with the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve at the end of World War II. She began her military training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and was later transferred as a mess orderly to San Francisco, California in 1944. After the war, she lived in Peoria, AZ and passed away on November 17, 2002 in Payson, AZ. She is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ.

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], Winifred Lund Caraway collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_98_0838

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