Title:: Mary Frances Switzer Papers 1941-1945

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Mary Frances Switzer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.00
Creator:
Switzer, Mary Frances Galer, Allen
Abstract:
Papers, letters and photographs of Mary Frances Switzer of Florida who served as a WWII Army nurse in France. Letters are from friends and family, but mostly from her sometime beau, Allen Galer, who writes about the ups and downs of their relationship.
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Mary Frances Switzer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, letters and photographs of Mary Frances Switzer of Florida who served as a WWII Army nurse in France. Letters are from friends and family, but mostly from her sometime beau, Allen Galer, who writes about the ups and downs of their relationship.

Biographical / historical:

Mary Frances Switzer of Florida served as a World War II Army nurse in France.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 10/21/2006.
Arrangement:

Letters are in chronological order. Photographs are divided by identified, unidentified, landscapes and people.