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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: July 2004 Description is in English Finding Aid for the Winona Franklin Walker Collection, 1945 - 1964, 2003 #WV-0284 University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Descriptive Summary Women Veterans Historical Collection Walker, Winona Franklin Winona Franklin Walker Collection, 1945 - 1964, 2003 #WV-0284 Material in English 2.5 linear feet 4 archival boxes For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives & Manuscripts. Winona Franklin Walker of South Boston, Virginia, served as a librarian with the Army Special Services in Bremen, Germany, in 1945 and 1946. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Individuals obtaining materials from University Archives & Manuscripts at UNCG are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Winona Franklin Walker Collection, #WV-0284, Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.

Interview with Winona Walker by Hermann Trojanowski on July 9, 2003, Winona Franklin Walker Collection, #WV-0284, Women Veterans Historical Collection, Jackson Library, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Winona Walker of Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 9, 2003.

Processing Information

Processed by University Archives Staff, August 2003

Encoded by Elizabeth Carmichael, July 2004

Biographical Note

Miss Walker was born in South Boston, Virginia on August 9, 1908, the oldest of seven children. After graduating from State Teachers College in Harrisonburg, Virginia, she taught English and history for three years. Miss Walker was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1935 with a degree in library science.

After her gradutaion Miss Walker worked at the public library in Shelby, North Carolina, for eight years and then at the Post Hospital library at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for two years. She left Fort Bragg in August 1945 to join the Army Special Services as a librarian. She served in Bremen, Germany, until the fall of 1946.

Miss Walker returned to the United States in October 1946 and worked in Kecoughtan, Virginia, and Greenwood, South Carolina. She later found employment at the High Point Public Library in High Point, North Carolina, and then various school libraries in Greensboro, North Carolina. She retired from Jackson Junior High School's library.

Collection Overview

The materials in this collection are primarily from Walker's time in the Army Special Services.

This collection contains correspondence, military papers, maps, souvenirs, an oral history interview, photographs, professional papers, three scrapbooks, , and textiles and artifacts. The scrapbooks include a number of photographs, postcards of historical sites, travel brochures, and correspondence. One scrapbook contains pictures primarily of Bremen and Germany, the second scrapbook contains pictures and postcards from Miss Walker's travels to Denmark and Switzerland and the third contains more personal pictures and photographs/memorabilia from her stay in Bremen. The correspondence found in the scrapbooks has been removed for preservation purposes. The correspondence consists of letters to Miss Walker's mother and other members of her extensive family with only a few letters that she in turn received from her family.

Detailed Description of the Collection Correspondence, 1945-1964 1 1 Index of correspondence, 1945-1946 2 Correspondence, 1945 2 Correspondence, 1945 3 Correspondence, 1946 4 Correspondence, 1947 5 Correspondence, 1948 6 Correspondence, 1949 7 Correspondence, 1950-1959 8 Correspondence, 1960-1964 9 Christmas and Easter Cards, undated Military Papers, 1945-1946 10 Military papers and records, 1945-1946 11 Army Special Services insignia design, undated Maps 12 Maps of Germany, 1944 and undated Souvenirs

Contains booklet and postcard about Heidelberg, Germany and a postcard advertising events and programs at Amerika Haus in Bremen, Germany.

13 Souvenirs, undated Oral History, 9 July, 2003 14 Transcript Photographs, 1945-1946 15 Photographs Professional Papers, 1946 16 University of North Carolina Library School Alumni Association Bulletin, December 1946. Posters, 1945-1946 General WVHP oversize box 2 Posters for the Bremen Port Command Special Services Library, 1946 Textiles and Artifacts, 1945-1946 2 Army Special Services Garrison Cap, 1945-1946 Identification card, 1945 Special Service Patches, 1945-1946