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Dorotha Farrell collection, Date accessioned: 2019-10-07, bulk 1942-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Farrell, Dorotha, 1920-2017
Extent:
.25 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Dorotha Farrell collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_08_0080

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Dorotha Farrell who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in an orthopedic ward with the 98th General Hospital that served in England and Germany in World War II. This collection contains 72 photographs, oral history interview transcript, one newspaper article clipping, one Life magazine cover, nine letters, and one folder of official documents.

Biographical / historical:

Dorotha Farrell was born in Owensville, Indiana on August 8, 1920. She graduated high school in 1938 and attended training school at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana from 1938-1941. She completed basic training at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi from August 1943-February 8, 1944. She served in World War II in England and Germany with the 98th General Hospital from 1944-1945. She passed away on April 21, 2017.

Custodial history:

Donated by Dorotha Farrell

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], Dorotha Farrell collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_08_0080

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