Marita Silverman Bowden Collection

Finding Aid, MSS 6 Marita Silverman Bowden Collection

Finding Aid, MSS 6 Marita Silverman Bowden Collection

Name/Title

Marita Silverman Bowden Collection

Entry/Object ID

1998.29

Scope and Content

18 folders of correspondence, snapshots, and photocopies documenting the donor's experiences serving with the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam, 1970-1971.

Collection

Marita Silverman Bowden Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1998.29

Source or Donor

Bowden, Marita Silverman

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Marita Silverman Bowden, BSN 1966

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

1970 - 1998

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1970-1998 [bulk dates 1970-1971] Date(s): 1970-1998 [bulk dates 1970-1971] Associated Material: Roselyn Silverman Collection, 2007.30 at the Capital Jewish Museum https://jhsgw.pastperfectonline.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_criteria=%22Roselyn+Silverman+Collection%22&searchButton=Search Level of Description: Fonds/Coll

Archive Items Details

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from 8th Field Hospital, An Khe, Vietnam

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Container

1

Notes

Date: August - September 1970 Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from the 8th Field Hospital in An Khe. Topics include the weather, upcoming transfer to the 95th EVAC Hospital, plans to buy stereo equipment, leave in Cam Ranh Bay.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

Oct 1970

Container

2

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from the 95th EVAC hospital in Da Nang. Topics include working in the ER, side effects from a flu shot, receipt of packages from home, and applications to graduate school.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

Nov 1970

Container

3

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from 95th EVAC Hospital in Da Nang. Topics include receipt of packages and letters, thoughts on Lady Bird Johnson's recollections of the White House, death of older friends in the U.S.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Container

4

Notes

Date: December 1970 - January 1971 Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from 95th EVAC Hospital in Da Nang. Topics include mailing and receiving tapes, information parents will need to file Silverman's taxes, pay raise, description of a the Chaplain's Office at 24th Corps with a sign "Friar Power" on a Jeep parked in front.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

Feb 1971

Container

5

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from the 95th EVAC Hospital in Da Nang and a trip to Bangkok on leave.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

Mar 1971

Container

6

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Letters Home

Description

Letters to Marita Silverman's parents from the 95th EVAC Hospital in Da Nang. Topics include transfer to surgical ward from ICU, desire for a trip to Saigon, plans for registration at University of Arizona School of Nursing, orders for Hong Kong, increasingly hot weather. Includes a letter on Hong Kong Hyatt Hotel onionskin, describing a trip to a tailor, ordering 5 outfits and 2 pairs of custom boots.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Container

7

Notes

Date: April - July 1971 Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Envelopes

Description

5 envelopes addressed to Mr and Mrs S. Silverman, Washington, D.C.; includes a newspaper clipping of people walking on the frozen Chesapeak Bay.

Container

8

Notes

Date: [1970-1971] Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Preparing to go to Friday night Sabbath Services, Rabbi Kraus in background

Description

8 x 10 black and white photographic print showing Captain Marita Silverman leading a friend by the ear to Friday nigh Sabbath services. Captain Silverman grins as she grasps the unidentified man's ear. Behind her stand three men; at the left, ,Rabbi Kraus, bemused, smiles as he stands, legs crossed, with his hands in his pockets. To the right, two others look on. Caption reads, "Da Nang, Viet Nam. January 1971- Capt. Marita Silverman, Army Nurse Corps, and friends from Chaplain's office- Rabbi Kraus (From Calif.) in background (left).

Creator

Oser, Ralph

Date(s) of Creation

Jan 1971

Container

9

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Photographs, Da Nang, Vietnam

Description

15 - 3.5 x 3.5" square color snapshots of Da Nang showing graveyard, hospital, houses, and Capt. Silverman 2 - 3.56 x 4.25" color polaroid prints of Captain Silverman in Da Nang 4 - 3.5 x 5" color snapshots of Captain Silverman, three in uniform in Da Nang, one as a bridesmaid 1 - 3.5 x 5" black and white snapshot of Captain Silverman in Vietnam draped in a beach towel printed with a drawing of the sun and horoscope signs 1 - Black and white photocopy of a phot of Capt. Marita Silverman lighting Sabbath candles at Danang Air Base.

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

1970 - 1970

Container

10

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Hong Kong, B.C.C. photographs

Description

6 - 3.5 x 5" color snapshots of scenes in and around Hong Kong, taken when Captain Silverman was on leave

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

May 1971

Container

11

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Miscellaneous Vietnam 70-71

Description

One 3.5 x 3.5" color snapshot identified on the back "This is Priscilla- a 14 ft pythom in Quang Tri."

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

1971

Container

11

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

An Khe, Vietnam

Description

10 - 3.5 x 3.5" color snapshots of scenes in and around the base at An Khe, Vietnam

Creator

Silverman, Marita

Date(s) of Creation

1970

Container

13

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Pictures of the Vietnam Experience August, 1970 July 1971

Description

Computer printout of scanned snapshots taken by Marita Silverman during her service with the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam, 1970-1971. Images are accompanied by descriptive captions. 20 pages.

Creator

Bowden, Marita Silverman

Date(s) of Creation

1998

Container

14

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Photocopies, Jungle Jews of Vietnam

Description

4 pages of photocopes from book by Rabbi Leonard Winograd, D.H.L. including biographical information about Marita Silverman and her experience in Vietnam.

Container

15

Notes

Date: No Date Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

Photocopies, About Face

Description

9 pages of copies from "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior," by Colonel David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman. Pages copied describe the base and surroundings at An Khe.

Container

16

Notes

Date: No Date Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

The Women of the Army Nurse Corps During the Vietnam War

Description

Photocopy of an article by Iris J. West, LTC, ANC on the experiences of Army nurses serving in Vietnam. 5 pages on 3 sheets.

Date(s) of Creation

1993

Container

17

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Title

The Connection

Description

Page torn from "The Connection" newsletter of the Retired Army Nurse Corps Association with obituary of Marian Barbieri.

Date(s) of Creation

Jun 1998

Container

18

Notes

Location: UMSON:490:S6C

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Silverman, Marita (1944-)

Person or Organization

Bowden, Marita Silverman (1944-)

Related Entries

Notes

Related Units of Description: 1999.64 accession including uniform and accessories as well as audio tapes

Provenance

Notes

Admin or Biographical History: Born in 1944 to Seymour and Roselyn Dresbold Silverman, Marita Silverman graduated from UMSON with her BSN in 1966. She subsequently served in the Army Nurse Corps with a tour of duty in Vietnam from August 1970 to July 1971. While in Vietnam, she was based first at the 8th Field Hospital in An Khe before being transferred to the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nag in November 1970. After her return to the United States, Silverman, now a captain, earned an MS in Pediatric Nursing from the University of Arizona in 1972. She married Lyndon P. Bowden, Jr. on January 22, 1972. She enjoyed a three-decade career in nursing and adminsitration in Tucson.

General Notes

Note

Status: OK

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Create Date

August 19, 2021

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Update Date

October 17, 2024