Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection
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- Army Nurse Corps blue cape
- Army Nurse Corps blue cape, lined in maroon wool. Gold "U.S." officer's insignia on the right collar and caduceus on the left collar. Worn over one-piece brown and white seersucker field dress. Cape worn by Rachel Brower Twiddy in 1942 and 1943.
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- Army nurses and patients
- Rachel Brower Twiddy's co-workers and male patients pose on the steps of a structure, circa 1942.
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- Army nurses at Fort Ord
- Two army nurses, including Rachel Brower Twiddy (seated), are pictured at the nurses' station on their ward at Fort Ord, California, circa 1942.
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- Army nurses at Fort Ord
- Rachel Brower Twiddy (second from right) poses with six of her army nurse coworkers at Fort Ord, California, circa 1942. The group is attired in the white hospital uniform, with the exception of the nurse in the middle who wears the off-duty dress.
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- Army nurses at gas mask drill
- A group photo of army nurses, each with a gas mask over their right shoulder, circa 1942.
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- Oral history interview with Rachel Brower Twiddy
- Primarily documents Rachel Brower Twiddy's experiences in nursing school in Washington, D.C., and her nursing career before and during her service in the Army Nurse Corps at Fort Ord, California, during World War II. Twiddy discusses growing up on a farm outside Greensboro, North Carolina; attending nursing school in Washington, D.C.; taking courses at Johns Hopkins University; private duty nursing in Washington; her experience sightseeing in California while working at Stanford Hospital; an aborted plan to work at Queen's Hospital in Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor; and reactions in San Francisco to the Japanese attack. " Topics related to the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) include her reasons for joining the ANC; her parents' reaction when she joined; the lack of military training for nurses; the ANC uniform; common injuries and illnesses that she treated at Ford Ord; fellow ANC nurses; her work schedule at Fort Ord; her embarrassment at being saluted by enlisted men; meeting her husband in the Fort Ord hospital; meeting Hollywood stars at Fort Ord; social life, including dances and dating; the surprise of V-J Day; changes in military standards; and her opinion of women in combat positions.
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- Rachel Brower Twiddy
- Portrait of Rachel Brower Twiddy in Army Nurse Corps dress uniform and garrison cap, circa 1942.
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- Rachel Brower Twiddy and two friends, circa 1942
- Rachel Brower Twiddy (far right) poses with two female friends, circa 1942. They wear civillian clothing and stand in front of a car.
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- Rachel Brower Twiddy at work in a hospital ward
- Army nurse Rachel Brower Twiddy stands at the bedside of a patient while at work on a hospital ward at Fort Ord, California, in 1942.
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- Rachel Brower Twiddy with two patients
- Army nurse Rachel Brower Twiddy stands in between two male patients on the stairs of a structure at Fort Ord, California, circa 1942.
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- Two army nurses
- Rachel Brower Twiddy and a fellow army nurse pose among agave plants in Carmel, California, circa 1942. Twiddy is still wearing the navy blue army nurse uniform with blue 1st pattern service cap and wool overcoat. Her friend wears the new olive drab service uniform and 2nd pattern service cap.
