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Collection Number: 04257

Collection Title: Mary Margaret Salm Papers, 1920-2004

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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
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Mary Margaret Salm Papers #4257, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mary Margaret Salm of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1981-2004.
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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.

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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.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Papers, 1920-2004.

About 1,800 items.

Arrangement: 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 2

Folder 3

1940-1944

Folder 4

1950s

Folder 5

1960s

Folder 6

1970s

Folder 7

1980-1986

Folder 8

1987-1988

Folder 9-11

Folder 9

Folder 10

Folder 11

1989

Folder 12

1982-1990: Letters to the Editor

Folder 13-16

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

1990

Folder 17-19

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

1991

Folder 20-31

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

Folder 25

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

1992

Folder 32-42

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

Folder 37

Folder 38

Folder 39

Folder 40

Folder 41

Folder 42

1993

Folder 43-52

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

1994

Folder 53-63

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

1995

Folder 64-76

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

1996

Folder 77-84

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Folder 80

Folder 81

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

1997

Folder 85-88

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

1998

Folder 89-91

Folder 89

Folder 90

Folder 91

1999

Folder 92-93

Folder 92

Folder 93

2000

Folder 94

2001

Folder 95

2003

Folder 96

2004

Folder 97-98

Folder 97

Folder 98

Correspondence: Undated

Folder 99

1945: Victory At Last

Folder 100

Address book

Folder 101

Adoption papers

Folder 102-104

Folder 102

Folder 103

Folder 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 108

Folder 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 121

Folder 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 137

Folder 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 143

Folder 144

Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA)

Folder 145-146

Folder 145

Folder 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 149

Folder 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 153

Folder 154

World War II: Printed material

Folder 155

World War II: Miscellaneous

Folder 156

Miscellaneous printed material

Folder 157-159

Folder 157

Folder 158

Folder 159

Miscellaneous

Folder 160

Miscellaneous (duplicates)

Videotape VT-4257/1

Women in Military Service for America Memorial: The Reunion, 17 October 1997

VHS

Videotape VT-4257/2

Free a Man to Fight, 1999

VHS

History channel production.

Videotape VT-4257/4

Veterans Day Parade, Nashville, Tenn., 11 November 1999

VHS

Videotape VT-4257/5

Vets Point program on women vets, 11 October 1989

VHS

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About 2,000 items.

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-4257/11

PF-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-4257/25

PF-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-4257/59

PF-4257/60

1984: Europe

Image Folder PF-4257/61

1985: travel

Image Folder PF-4257/62-63

PF-4257/62

PF-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

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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.

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6 items.

Materials relating to the 131st AACS (Army Airways Communications System).

Folder 161

131st AACS Squadron, 1944, 2001

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1 item.

Video tape highlighting the people, places, and culture of Tennessee (taped 5 April 2001).

Folder 162

Tennessee Crossroads

Videotape VT-4257/3

Tennessee Crossroads

VHS

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About 100 items.

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

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About 50 items.

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-4257/72

PF-4257/73

Photographs, 1935-1997

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of October 2001 (Acc. 99088), 1944, 2001.

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10 items.

Materials relating to the 60th Troop Carrier Group, especially the 12th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Folder 164

60th Troop Carrier Group, 1944, 2001

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About 250 items.

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About 200 items.

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 165

Folder 166

Folder 167

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

Papers, 1995-2002

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About 50 items.

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

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1 item.

Photocopy of 12th Troop Carrier Squadron: History in Cartoons, 1940-1945.

Folder 171

12th Troop Carrier Squadron: History in Cartoons, 1940-1945

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of February 2004 (Acc. 99711), 1921-2003.

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About 40 items.

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 proclamation

Audiocassette

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10 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of March 2004 (Acc. 99776), 1940s, 1998-1999.

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About 25 items.

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 173

Folder 174

Papers, 1940s, 1998-1999

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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

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