Box 1

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Folder 1 Nursing License Certificates, 1938-1939, bulk: 1938 - 1939

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 01
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Series contains personal items and recollections of service during World War II.

Dates: 1938-1939; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1939

Item 1 Virginia State Board of Examiners of Nurses license certificate

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 01, item: 01
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Series contains personal items and recollections of service during World War II.

Dates: 1938-1939; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1939

Item 2 Missouri State board of Nurse Examiners license certificate

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 01, item: 02
Identifier: 1
Description

Certificate from the Missouri State board of Nurse Examiners license 14378 verifying that Alice Martin Huffman is a registered nurse and licensed to practice. Dated March 24, 1939.

Dates: 1938-1939; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1939

Folder 2 Travel Manuscript

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 02
Identifier: 1
Description

Undated fourteen page manuscript recounting ship voyage from Montreal to London, Paris, and Naples. Pompeii. Author possibly Alice Huffman, circa 1940’s

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 3 Travel Manuscript

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 03
Identifier: 1
Description

Thirteen page manuscript Rome, Naples. Pompeii . Appears to be a script for a slide show presentation. Author possibly Alice Huffman, circa 1950.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 4 Travel Manuscript

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 04
Identifier: 1
Description

Thirty Nine page manuscript and a 16 page typescript of the same recollection of a visit to Europe. London, Oxford, Strafford, Holland, Paris, Lucerne, Venice, Naples, Florence. Appears to be a script for a slide show presentation. Author possibly Alice Huffman, circa 1950

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 5 Photos of the 8th Evacuation Hospital

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 05
Identifier: 1
Description

Labeled photographs of personnel of the 8th Evacuation Hospital. Photographs include: group photograph of 8th Evacuation Hospital Nurses; Casablanca, March 1943; General Mark Clark, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Casablanca, 1943; Moving day Lake Garda 1945; Skiing near Pietramala; Hospital Camp at Pietramala.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 6 Photos of the 8th Evacuation Hospital

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 06
Identifier: 1
Description

Photographs of the 8th Evacuation hospital, some labeled: Entrance to 8th Evac, Lake Garda; 8th Evacuation Hospital arriving at Anzio; Florence; Corpus Christi Pageantry, Isle of Ischia, Italy, Spring 1944; many unlabeled.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 7 Photographs

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 07
Identifier: 1
Description

Photographs that do not appear to be of the 8th Evacuation Hospital circa 1930’s -1940’s , Many unlabeled, Labeled photos include: Alice Huffman, 1937; Jake Huffman.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 8 Travel Brochures and Maps

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 08
Identifier: 1
Description

Travel brochures and maps that appear to have been given to 8th Evacuation Hospital personnel on a leave action guided tour in Switzerland in 1945. Brochures include: Historical Lecture by J. Alfred Myer, published by the Swiss National Tourist Office; Hotel Metropol, Brunnen; Davos, Grisons, Switzerland; Two maps of Italy showing the Italian war front.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 9 8th Evacuation Hospital Newsletter

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 09
Identifier: 1
Description

8th Evacuation Hospital Newsletter dated Fall 1955 recounting the 10 year reunion held at Charlottesville, Virginia August 26-28 1955. A mailing list of known alumni is included as well as a listing of persons for whom an address is unknown.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 10 Oral History Interview Transcription

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 1
Description

Typed oral history interview transcription of Alice Huffman Bugel. The interview provides a bit of background information and recounts her service with the 8th Evacuation Hospital. The interview was conducted on September 13, 2002, but the name of the person conducting the interview is not listed. File also contains typed paged containing genealogical data for Huffman family and an outline for a book entitled “My Military History.”

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 11 Biographical Memoir

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 1
Description

Undated typescript authored by Alice Hoffman Bugel recounting events in her life immediately prior to her entry into the military and service during WWII.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 12 Articles and Publications

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 1
Description

Articles and publications containing information about Alice Huffman Bugel’s military service. Publications include: Women’s Veterans Network 10th Anniversary Memory Book 1997-2007 (biography on page 64-65); “Memories of the Good War, Vanderbilt House Organ, May, 1990 page 3-5.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 13 American History Illustrated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1
Abstract

American History Illustrated Special World War II issue June 1983.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 14 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: 1
Description

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings about WWII and obituaries of acquaintances who served in the military during WWII.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

Folder 15 Book: The 8th Evac.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 1
Description

Leavell, Byrd Stuart. The 8th Evac. A History of the University of Virginia Hospital Unit in World War II. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1970. Inscribed to “Huffy” from author.

Dates: 1938-2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1950

 

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