Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995.

Oveta Culp Hobby papers, 1941-1997 (bulk 1941-1945). - 2,200 items. 11 2 containers plus oversize. 4.4 linear feet. - Arranged in 3 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1941-1945; Series 2: Miscellany, 1941-1997; and Series 3: Oversize, 1942-1943.

Open to research.

Correspondence, printed matter, and other papers relating to Hobby's work during World War II as chief of the Women's Interest Section of the Bureau of Public Relations in the War Department and as the first director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, renamed Women's Army Corps in 1943.


Some photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare; director of Women's Army Corps; newspaper editor and publisher; and businesswoman.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009093.

mm 82026146


United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps.
United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations. Women's Interest Section.


Women in war--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States.


Businesswomen.
Cabinet officers.
Legislators--Texas.
Newspaper editors.
Publishers.