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THE WRITTEN RECORD OF HAWAII'S WOMEN: |
The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) in Special Collections in the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library.
The collection includes several manuscripts written by women or about women during World War II in Hawaii. Early HWRD workers arranged the manuscripts into categories according to general subjects or agencies from which materials arrived. They then cataloged the manuscripts under subject headings, author and title entries. The following areas are some of the more significant listings on women in the HWRD card catalog.
Requests to review these materials require 24 hours notice.
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Civilian Defense Nurses and Nurses' Aides |
Various numbers Various numbers, especially 48 (48.01-48.01), 50 |
Recreation |
Various numbers |
Red Cross |
Various numbers |
Spars (Coast Guard) |
5.04 |
United Service Organization (USO) |
Various numbers |
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) |
24.01, 58.05, and reel 9 |
Women's Air Ferrying Service (WAFS) |
7 |
Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) |
69.02, reel 27 |
Women's Ambulance Service Patrol (WASP) |
69.03 |
Women's Army Corps (WAC) |
44.05; reels 9, 47 |
Women's Army Volunteer Corp (WAVC) |
20, 20.09 |
Women's Defense Service Groups [includes other groups listed here] |
69 |
Women's War Service Association |
58.08 |
Since the workers who cataloged this large collection did not use a controlled vocabulary and were not consistent, it is important that researchers check for variant entries. For example, material about the Women's Ambulance Service Patrol is under that title, not under "WASP." Materials pertaining to the Women's Army Corps are filed both under "Women's Army Corps" and under WAC. Materials on Spars are filed only under "Spars," not under the spelled out entry.
Two other areas in the HWRD contain significant holdings concerning women. The section on personal narratives (50) contains approximately thirty-five accounts written by women. Many of these accounts may also be duplicated under "Nurses and Nurses' Aides" listed above. A number of folders contain theme papers by the University of Hawaii students (24.01). Essays by approximately forty-seven women are in this section.
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