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Title	[Portrait of Annis Glendon Weir, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--Navy Nurse Corps
Item description	Portrait of Annis Glendon Weir in Navy Nurse Corps slate gray dress with garrison cap, circa 1945.
Veteran's name	Weir, Annis Glendon
Veteran's biography	Annis Glendon Weir, of Trenton, New Jersey, served in the Navy Nurse Corps at St. Albans Hospital on Long Island from April 1945 to April 1946 . Annis Glendon Weir grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, and graduated from Trenton High School in 1938. She went to New Jersey College for Women for a year and a half, until she was old enough to attend nursing school at St. Francis Hospital in 1940. Weir graduated in 1943 and worked in the operating room at St. Francis for a year and then in the neonatal nursery at Mercer Hospital, also in Trenton." In April 1945, Wier joined the Navy Nurse Corps after obtaining a waiver for her eyesight. She was stationed at St. Albans Hospital in Long Island, New York, doing mostly administration work. She was discharged in April 1946, when she married Earle Weir. They returned to Trenton, where Weir continued to work as a nurse until her two children were born.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0148 Annis Glendon Weir Papers
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	WV0148.6.001
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	900811727

[Portrait of Annis Glendon Weir, circa 1945]

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