[Annis Glendon Weir, 1945]
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Title |
[Annis Glendon Weir, 1945] |
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Date |
1945 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Navy--Navy Nurse Corps |
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Item description |
Annis Glendon Weir poses outside on a lounge chair in her Navy Nurse Corps white service dress with a 1944 white service hat in 1945. |
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Veteran's name |
Weir, Annis Glendon |
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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. |
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image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Full uniform |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0148 Annis Glendon Weir Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0148.6.002 |
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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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OCLC number |
900811728 |
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