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Elizabeth O'Farrell collection, 1943-1948, Date accessioned: 2020-02-11

 

Summary

Creator:
O'Farrell, Elizabeth Kinzer, 1919-
Extent:
1 Cubic Feet
1 items One four-piece uniform on a uniform rack.
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Elizabeth O'Farrell collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_02_0068

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to the service of Elizabeth O'Farrell, who served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War II. She received training to be a physical therapy technician, and served at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital from 1943-1944, and then at Glenview Naval Hospital in Illinois from 1944-1945.

Biographical / historical:

Elizabeth O'Farrell was born August 3, 1919 in Illinois. After attending the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps and began working at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in 1943. She served for the rest of the war, working in the Navy Nurse Corps until 1950 when discharged. She worked with paraplegic patients and taught medical corps men and WAVES basic nursing technique in preparation for their deployments and assignments. She passed away on March 18, 2013.

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], Elizabeth O'Farrell collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_02_0068

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