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Title |
Josephine L. DePietro Papers |
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Date |
1938-1944 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Item description |
Manuscript collection. Not digitized. |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Military nursing--United States--History |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Army--Army Nurse Corps |
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Veteran's name |
DePietro, Josephine L. |
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Veteran's biography |
Josephine L. "Tootie" Bufano DePietro was born on 12 April 1919 in New York, to Andrew and Lillian Bufano. After graduating from Mont Pleasant High School in Schenectady, New York in 1938, she began nursing school at the Schenectady Hospital Association's Training School for Nurses (now known as the Ellis Hospital School of Nursing), graduating in 1941 .
By 1944, she had enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and was first stationed at the Thomas H. England General Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Other postings included the Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York, and Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York .
DePietro later married Salvatore Ridolfi, and died at age eighty-seven in New York City on 9 January 2006 .
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Source collection |
WV0461 Josephine L. DePietro Papers, 1938-1945 |
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Collection summary |
This collection consists of twenty-eight letters written to and from DePietro's friends and family. The collection begins with the letters written by DePietro when she attended nursing school; the last letter in the collection is addressed to her parents and discusses news from family and provides updates on her activities. Most of the letters are written to her; there are letters from her significant other Sam, who was stationed with the Army Air Force at Bowman Field in Kentucky. There are also letters from a friend who was in the Navy Nurse Corps and another from the Army Nurse Corps, and letters from other friends, family, and a patient. The remainder of the collection includes a Valentines's Day card from Sam, two school annuals, one photograph, one Thanksgiving Day menu, and three postcards. |
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Finding aid link |
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=692 |
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Type |
Collection |
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Language |
en |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Preferred citation |
[Identification of item], [Identification of collection], Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA. |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
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Object ID |
WV0461.0.000 |
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Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
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Digital collection homepage |
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/WVHP |
