Edna Andrews Weston Collection
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- Edna Andrews Weston
- Formal portrait of Edna Andrews Weston in Navy Nurse Corps uniform and first pattern blue service hat, 1944.
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- Edna Andrews Weston at Naval Hospital Unit
- Edna Andrews Weston in her Navy Nurse Corps black dress uniform stands in front of the sign for the the U.S. Naval Hospital Unit 2, probably at San Diego, California, in 1945.
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- Edna Andrews Weston at San Diego Naval Hospital
- Edna Andrews Weston in the Navy Nurse Corps white blouse and skirt she wore as supervisor at the naval hospital in San Diego, California, in 1945 and 1946.
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- Edna Andrews Weston in NNC uniform
- Edna Andrews Weston, circa 1944, stands outside wearing the Navy Nurse Corps navy blue uniform and 1944 service hat with white top, and holding gloves.
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- Edna Andrews Weston in NNC uniform
- Edna Andrews Weston on vacation in June 1945, wearing the Navy Nurse Corps white dress uniform and 1944 service hat with white top, holding a purse in gloved hands somewhere outdoors.
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- Edna Andrews Weston in NNC uniform
- Edna Andrews Weston, in her Navy Nurse Corps white blouse and skirt, stands next a white building and models her NNC dark blue cape with velvet collar, circa 1945.
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- Oral history interview with Edna Andrews Weston
- Primarily documents Edna Andrews Weston's early life, her experiences in the Navy Nurse Corps (NNC) during World War II, and her post-war nursing career. Weston talks about becoming a nurse to get away from outdoor farm work; book work and clinical work during nurses' training; friends who joined the Army Nurse Corps; and her desire to do something different. " Topics related to the Navy Nurse Corps (NNC) include interviewing with the navy in Asheville; Weston's parents' reactions when she joined the NNC; learning procedures and how to treat certain injuries during navy training; living in barracks; sending her civilian clothes home; NNC hospital command structure; social life in the NNC, including movies and sightseeing; living arrangements in San Diego; patients with severe wounds; her opinion of Eleanor Roosevelt; famous visitors to navy bases, including Helen Keller and Art Linkletter; and white glove inspections. Weston also comments on her wish later in life that she had made a career of the NNC and discusses her opinion of women in combat positions.
