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 reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, 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:
1.20
Creator:
Switzer, Mary Frances Galer, Allen arrangement
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. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Mary Frances Switzer">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Mary Frances Switzer</a>.

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.