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Size | 8.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4,200 items items) |
Abstract | Mary Margaret Salm (1921- ) served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Salm's name when she served in the Army was Mary Margaret Schisler. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other items of Mary Margaret Salm. The materials chiefly relate to Salm's service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, to her numerous volunteer projects, and to her interest in family genealogy. |
Creator | Salm, Mary Margaret, 1921- . |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff, 1998-2004
Encoded by: Lynn Holdzkom, March 2004
Revisions: Finding aid updated in November 2005 by Nancy Kaiser and in May 2021 by Dawne Howard Lucas
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Mary Margaret Salm (1921- ) served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Salm's name when she served in the Army was Mary Margaret Schisler.
Back to TopThe collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other items of Mary Margaret Salm. The materials chiefly relate to Salm's service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, to her numerous volunteer projects, and to her interest in family genealogy.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological, then alphabetical by subject.
The papers include correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other items of Mary Margaret Salm. The materials chiefly relate to Salm's service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, to her numerous volunteer projects, and to her interest in family genealogy.
Folder 1 |
1920s-1930s |
Folder 2-3
Folder 2Folder 3 |
1940-1944 |
Folder 4 |
1950s |
Folder 5 |
1960s |
Folder 6 |
1970s |
Folder 7 |
1980-1986 |
Folder 8 |
1987-1988 |
Folder 9-11
Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11 |
1989 |
Folder 12 |
1982-1990: Letters to the Editor |
Folder 13-16
Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16 |
1990 |
Folder 17-19
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19 |
1991 |
Folder 20-31
Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31 |
1992 |
Folder 32-42
Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42 |
1993 |
Folder 43-52
Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52 |
1994 |
Folder 53-63
Folder 53Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63 |
1995 |
Folder 64-76
Folder 64Folder 65Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76 |
1996 |
Folder 77-84
Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82Folder 83Folder 84 |
1997 |
Folder 85-88
Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88 |
1998 |
Folder 89-91
Folder 89Folder 90Folder 91 |
1999 |
Folder 92-93
Folder 92Folder 93 |
2000 |
Folder 94 |
2001 |
Folder 95 |
2003 |
Folder 96 |
2004 |
Folder 97-98
Folder 97Folder 98 |
Correspondence: Undated |
Folder 99 |
1945: Victory At Last |
Folder 100 |
Address book |
Folder 101 |
Adoption papers |
Folder 102-104
Folder 102Folder 103Folder 104 |
Articles |
Folder 105 |
Attwell, Mabe Lucie |
Folder 106 |
Army Records: John Salm and Mary Salm |
Folder 107 |
Awards and certificates |
Folder 108-109
Folder 108Folder 109 |
Byrns, Harold |
Folder 110 |
Church Guide: Operating Instructions |
Folder 111 |
Diary, 1945 |
Folder 112 |
Europe postcards and other pictures, 1940s |
Folder 113 |
Familien-Chronik |
Folder 114 |
Family records and biographical Materials |
Folder 115 |
Fort Oglethorpe 50th Anniversary |
Folder 116 |
Fort Oglethorpe postcards |
Folder 117 |
Freund, Louis and Elsie Freund |
Folder 118 |
Immigration and Naturalization: John Salm |
Folder 119 |
Hartford YMCA |
Folder 120 |
Hendrix College |
Folder 121-122
Folder 121Folder 122 |
Lake Junaluska |
Folder 123 |
Military Coffin |
Folder 124 |
Nashville, Tenn. |
Folder 125 |
Newspaper clippings, 1940s |
Folder 126 |
Newspaper clippings: Ronald Reagan |
Folder 127 |
Passports |
Folder 128 |
Peabody Demonstration School |
Folder 129 |
Peabody Demonstration School: Yearbook, 1937 |
Folder 130 |
Phelps, Johnnie and Ruth Helbig |
Folder 131 |
Pied Piper |
Folder 132 |
Polk genealogy |
Folder 133 |
Recipes, exhibits, Christmas cards |
Folder 134 |
Salm, Uri |
Folder 135 |
School records |
Folder 136 |
Sexual harrassment (Navy) |
Folder 137-138
Folder 137Folder 138 |
Tennessee State Library and Archives |
Folder 139 |
Twin Props Newspaper, 1943-1944 |
Folder 140 |
United States Armed Forces printed material |
Folder 141 |
Veteran's clippings |
Folder 142 |
WACS & WINGS |
Folder 143-144
Folder 143Folder 144 |
Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA) |
Folder 145-146
Folder 145Folder 146 |
Women's Army Corps (WAC) |
Folder 147 |
Women's Army Corps: 50th Anniversary |
Folder 148 |
Women's Army Corps: Postal stamp |
Folder 149-150
Folder 149Folder 150 |
Women's Army Corps: "Winnie the WAC"Includes notecards by Vic Herman |
Folder 151 |
World War II: Army orders |
Folder 152 |
World War II: Postcards |
Folder 153-154
Folder 153Folder 154 |
World War II: Printed material |
Folder 155 |
World War II: Miscellaneous |
Folder 156 |
Miscellaneous printed material |
Folder 157-159
Folder 157Folder 158Folder 159 |
Miscellaneous |
Folder 160 |
Miscellaneous (duplicates) |
Videotape VT-4257/1 |
Women in Military Service for America Memorial: The Reunion, 17 October 1997VHS |
Videotape VT-4257/2 |
Free a Man to Fight, 1999VHS History channel production. |
Videotape VT-4257/4 |
Veterans Day Parade, Nashville, Tenn., 11 November 1999VHS |
Videotape VT-4257/5 |
Vets Point program on women vets, 11 October 1989VHS |
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.
The photographs chiefly relate to Mary Margaret Salm, Salm and Schisler family and friends, her service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, and travel.
Image Folder PF-4251/1 |
Brooks, Howard, 1941 |
Image Folder PF-4257/2 |
Kienzel family |
Image Folder PF-4257/3 |
Land's Chulkein Boarding School, Holzminder Germany, 1931-1932 |
Image Folder PF-4257/4 |
Salm, Ernest |
Image Folder PF-4257/5 |
Salm, Helen and Harold Byrns (Hans Bernstein), 1930s-1960s |
Image Folder PF-4257/6 |
Salm, John (Hans-Jochen Salm), 1915-1937 |
Image Folder PF-4257/7 |
Salm, John, 1937-1938 |
Image Folder PF-4257/8 |
Salm, John, 1940s-1980s |
Image Folder PF-4257/9 |
Salm, John: girlfriends, 1935-1951 |
Image Folder PF-4257/10 |
Salm, John and Margaret Salm |
Image Folder PF-4257/11-12
PF-4257/11PF-4257/12 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1920s |
Image Folder PF-4257/13 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1930s |
Image Folder PF-4257/14 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler: school, 1930s |
Image Folder PF-4257/15 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1941-1945 |
Image Folder PF-4257/16 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1940s |
Image Folder PF-4257/17 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1950s |
Image Folder PF-4257/18 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1960s |
Image Folder PF-4257/19 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1970s |
Image Folder PF-4257/20 |
Salm, Mary Margaret Schisler, 1980s-1990s |
Image Folder PF-4257/21 |
Salm, Peter, 1935-1958 |
Image Folder PF-4257/22 |
Salm family, 1920s-1944 |
Image Folder PF-4257/23 |
Salm family, 1950-1994 |
Image Folder PF-4257/24 |
Salm family: pets, 1937 |
Image Folder PF-4257/25-26
PF-4257/25PF-4257/26 |
Schisler family |
Image Folder PF-4257/27 |
1930s |
Image Folder PF-4257/28 |
1930: Egypt |
Image Folder PF-4257/29 |
1930s-1950s: Germany |
Image Folder PF-4257/30 |
1930s-1940s: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/31 |
1940s |
Image Folder PF-4257/32 |
1950s: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/33 |
1960 |
Image Folder PF-4257/34 |
1961-1962 |
Image Folder PF-4257/35 |
1963-1964 |
Image Folder PF-4257/36 |
1965 |
Image Folder PF-4257/37 |
1966-1967 |
Image Folder PF-4257/38 |
1967: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/39 |
1968-1969 |
Image Folder PF-4257/40 |
1969: Germany |
Image Folder PF-4257/41 |
1970-1974 |
Image Folder PF-4257/42 |
1971: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/43 |
1973: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/44 |
1975-1976 |
Image Folder PF-4257/45 |
1975: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/46 |
1976: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/47 |
1977 |
Image Folder PF-4257/48 |
Spring 1977: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/49 |
Summer 1977-Fall 1977: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/50 |
1978 |
Image Folder PF-4257/51 |
1978: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/52 |
1979 |
Image Folder PF-4257/53 |
1981: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/54 |
1981: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/55 |
1982: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/56 |
1982: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/57 |
1983: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/58 |
1984: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/59-60
PF-4257/59PF-4257/60 |
1984: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/61 |
1985: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/62-63
PF-4257/62PF-4257/63 |
1985: Europe |
Image Folder PF-4257/64 |
1988-1989: travel |
Image Folder PF-4257/65 |
1988 |
Image Folder PF-4257/66 |
1989: United States |
Image Folder PF-4257/67 |
1991: Desert Storm Celebration, Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee |
Image Folder PF-4257/68 |
Dolls made by Margaret Salm |
Image Folder PF-4257/69 |
Women's Army Corps and other women veterans reunion WIMSA |
Image Folder PF-4257/70 |
Miscellaneous (identified) |
Image Folder PF-4257/71 |
Miscellaneous |
Note that while these additions have not been integrated into the original deposit, they have been arranged according to the organization scheme of the previously deposited materials.
Materials relating to the 131st AACS (Army Airways Communications System).
Folder 161 |
131st AACS Squadron, 1944, 2001 |
Video tape highlighting the people, places, and culture of Tennessee (taped 5 April 2001).
Folder 162 |
Tennessee Crossroads |
Videotape VT-4257/3 |
Tennessee CrossroadsVHS |
The papers include correspondence, clippings, printed materials, and other items relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Folder 163 |
Papers, 2000-2001 and undated |
Photographs relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, travel, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Image Folder PF-4257/72-73
PF-4257/72PF-4257/73 |
Photographs, 1935-1997 |
Materials relating to the 60th Troop Carrier Group, especially the 12th Troop Carrier Squadron.
Folder 164 |
60th Troop Carrier Group, 1944, 2001 |
Arrangement: chronological.
The papers include correspondence, clippings, printed materials, and other items relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Folder 165-170
Folder 165Folder 166Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169Folder 170 |
Papers, 1995-2002 |
Photographs relating to Mary Margaret Salm, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Image Folder PF-4257/74 |
Photographs, 1988-2002 |
Photocopy of 12th Troop Carrier Squadron: History in Cartoons, 1940-1945.
Folder 171 |
12th Troop Carrier Squadron: History in Cartoons, 1940-1945 |
The papers include correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other items relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Folder 172 |
Papers, 1921-2003 |
Audiocassette C-4257/1 |
WWII proclamationAudiocassette |
Photographs relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Image Folder PF-4257/75 |
Photographs, 1945, 1953, 1990-2003 |
The papers include correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other items relating to Mary Margaret Salm, her family and friends, the Women's Army Corps, and women's military service during World War II.
Folder 173-174
Folder 173Folder 174 |
Papers, 1940s, 1998-1999 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-4257/1 |
Chiefly Women's Army Corps (WAC) posters and drawings by Mary Margaret Salm |
Photograph Album PA-4257/1 |
Photograph Album |