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Title	[Maggie V. McPherson at typewriter, circa 1946]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Maggie V. McPherson, seated at a desk, feeds paper into a typewriter, circa 1946. She wears the Red Cross military welfare winter uniform with four service stripes for four years of service.
Veteran's name	McPherson, Maggie V.
Veteran's biography	Maggie V. McPherson (1909-1976) served in the American Red Cross and the Special Services from 1942-1976 . Maggie V. McPherson (1909-1976) is a graduate of Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (now UNCG). During World War II, McPherson volunteered with the American Red Cross, which assigned her to various service clubs for U.S. military personnel. After the war, McPherson joined the Special Services to operate Army service clubs. From 1949 to 1951, she directed Air Force service clubs in Guam and Japan. From 1951 through the mid-1970s, she served in the Recreation Center at Osan Air Base in Korea.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Work photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0123 Maggie V. McPherson Papers, 1942-1976
Collection summary	The Maggie V. McPherson Papers primarily contains printed materials, including newsletters, booklets, yearbooks, and clippings, especially from her time in Korea. It also contains three scrapbooks which document her Red Cross service in WWII, her duty in the Special Services from the late 1940s through the 1950s, and her tenure at the Double Five service club in Osan, Korea, in 1959 and 1960.
Series/grouping	1: Papers, Printed Material, Photographs, 1942-1976
Box	1
Folder	Photographs, ca. 1940s-1970s
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=264
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0123.6.001
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/
OCLC number	900811324

[Maggie V. McPherson at typewriter, circa 1946]

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