Ladies of the 32nd Division Veterans Assocation Records and Photographs
1950-2001
- Ladies of the 32nd Division Veterans Assocation
WVM Mss 926
2.4 linear ft. (1 archives box and 7 flat boxes) of papers and 1.2 linear ft. (3 archives boxes and 1 flat box) of photographs.
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Records of the Ladies of the 32nd Division Veterans Association, an auxiliary group composed of the wives and female blood relatives of veterans of the 32nd Infantry Division (later Brigade). The function of this organization, based largely in Wisconsin and Michigan, is to support the activities of the 32nd Division Veterans Association. Records include three historical scrapbooks that provide a great deal of information about the group, its functions, and its officers. Other administrative records include a list of charter members, president's reports, and reunion registers that list attendees. Two newspaper scrapbooks collected by the Ladies document the World War II service of the 32nd Division from basic training through fighting in the Pacific and a military ball program shows a social activity of the Wisconsin National Guard in which the Ladies could take part. Photographs include over 100 shots of various Ladies reunions from the 1950s through the 1990s. These pictures show members eating, dancing, installing officers, and socializing with each other and with men from the 32nd Division Veterans Association, who held their reunions at the same time. Other photographs show Ladies members who compiled a cook book, many of their group presidents, entertainer Joe E. Brown (who was a special guest at a reunion), the home of General Edwin F. Harding, and a ceremony at the Wisconsin National Guard military ball at which the newly formed 32nd Infantry Battalion inherited the honors of the 32nd Infantry Division.
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