Leigh Jamison Gifford papers, 1945-2009, Date acquired: 04/12/2017, bulk 1945-1946
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Gifford-Modick, Jamie, 1920-2015
- Extent:
- .25 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Leigh Jamison Gifford papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_17_0005.
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection follows a woman who worked in the Red Cross administration at the 312th Station Hospital in England, and the 239th Station Hospital in France. It includes letters from the nurse to her mother and father, a local newspaper from the 312th Station Hospital, 2 portraits, 3 photographs of the English countryside and Stonehenge (taken by Eli Garfield Gifford), dog tags, and a modern US Military ID card. The letters are dated from December 1945 to May 1946.
- Biographical / historical:
Leigh Jamison Gifford was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. She graduated from Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio and attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She worked in the administrative and supply office of the American Red Cross in Station Hospitals in London, and later in Paris. She lived in Short Hills, New Jersey in her later life, and died there on August 29, 2015 at the age of 94.
- Acquisition information:
Jamie Gifford-Modick
Donation
- 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], Leigh Jamison Gifford papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_17_0005.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
