Elizabeth Taggart Collection
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- Formal group portrait featuring Ensign Elizabeth Taggert
- This formal group portrait features Ensign Elizabeth Taggart with her Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps class in 1982 wearing their Service Dress Blues.
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- Formal portrait of Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart
- Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart is seen in this formal photograph wearing a working khaki uniform that includes her warfare insignia and badges.
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- Formal portrait of Lieutenant Junior Grade Elizabeth Taggart
- Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart is seen here in her standard jacket uniform and cap.
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- Group photograph featuring Ensign Elizabeth Taggart
- This group photograph features Ensign Elizabeth Taggart and her peers in their Summer White Service uniforms while working at the Navy Regional Data Automation Center in Washington, D.C., in 1983.
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- Group photograph featuring Ensign Elizabeth Taggart
- This group photograph features Ensign Elizabeth Taggart with her peers at the Navy Regional Data Automation Center in Washington, D.C., in 1983. The officers are seen wearing their Service Dress White uniforms.
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- Group photograph featuring Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart
- This group photograph features Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart with her peers at the U.S. Naval War College in Washington, D.C., in 2007. Various examples of naval dress are shown.
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- Group photograph featuring Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart in South Korea
- This group photograph features Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Taggart while stationed in South Korea in 1999. She and her peers can be seen wearing camouflage uniforms.
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- Oral history interview with Elizabeth Taggart
- Primarily documents Elizabeth Pedro Taggart's childhood; her service with the United States Navy and United States Navy Reserve; and her life after active duty. Taggart discusses growing up at various military bases throughout the United States before her family settled in Sierra Vista, Arizona around 1972, her Asian mother wanting to raise her as an American so she would have more choices in life, and the criticism her mother received from the Asian community for doing so. " Taggart relates how she was encouraged to finish middle school at an accelerated pace, graduating two years early, and receiving an ROTC scholarship to attend the University of Rochester. She discusses how the navy had more career opportunities for women than the army, wanting to stay in Norfolk, Virginia in order to be with her fianc', and the tension felt between protecting women in the military and giving them equal rights. " Taggart discusses her admiration of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for being strong willed, and her belief that strength of leadership comes from a strong sense of conviction and psychological discipline. " Taggart also relates her thoughts on the Tailhook Scandal,"Don't' Ask, Don't Tell" and life in the civilian world versus the military world.
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- Photograph of Elizabeth Taggart and husband, Christopher Taggart
- Official portrait of Elizabeth Taggart and her husband Christopher Taggart, taken in the Officers Club of the Bangor Naval Submarine Base for a recruitment brochure in 1988/1989.
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- Photograph of Lieutenant Elizabeth Taggart
- Lieutenant Elizabeth Taggart is seen here in her office at Naval Submarine Base - Bangor, now Naval Base Kisap, in 1988/1989.
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- Photograph of the wedding of Ensign Elizabeth Taggart and Christopher Taggart
- Ensign Elizabeth Taggert and her husband Christopher Taggert are seen here cutting their wedding cake in September of 1983. Christopher Taggert is seen wearing his Service Dress White uniform.
