Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor diaries (#4994)
Subtitle: 8 September 1918-10 May 1919
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diaries; Nurses; Women; Social life and customs; World War, 1914-1918; War work; American Personal narratives; United States. Army Nurse Corps
Other titles: Daylogue; Diary, 8 September 1918-10 May 1919; North Carolinians and the Great War.
Description: A nurse during World War I, on 8 September, she embarked for France as a member of the Maguire Unit of the Army Nurse Corps. In France, she wrote about working and living conditions and about dances and social occasions. Nursing is occasionally mentioned, but never described in detail.
Notes: Title from TEI Header (viewed June 11, 2002)

Includes images of the handwritten pages from the diary.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North Carolinians and the Great War.

Diary transcribed by Amy Davis. Page images scanned by Harris Henderson. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Diaries, 1918-1979. Transcript of the manuscript. Call number SHC #4994 (Manuscripts Dept., Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor (b. 1888) of Scotland Neck, N.C., was a nurse in France during World War I, and later in several locations in the United States and abroad. She married Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor, a physician, in 1928.