urn:taro:utexas.cah.01014 A Guide to the Josephine Hobbs Kaser Collection, 1942-1973 Original EAD encoding by Amy E. Armstrong according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. May 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Kaser, Josephine Hobbs Josephine Hobbs Kaser Papers 1942-1973 Materials are written in English. A small portion of documents are in Japanese 2007-101 7 inches Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Second Lieutenant Kaser served as a US Army nurse between 1944 and 1945 on the USAHS (United States Army Hospital Ship) Marigold, which was stationed in the South Pacific. Papers include correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and military records pertaining to Josephine Hobbs Kaser’s career as an Army Nurse assigned to the USAHS Marigold during World War II and as a public health nurse in Japan following the War. Biographical Note

Josephine Hobbs Kaser was born in Idaho in 1912. She trained as a nurse and joined the US Army in 1942. Second Lieutenant Kaser served as a nurse between 1944 and 1945 on the USAHS (United States Army Hospital Ship) Marigold, which was stationed in the South Pacific. She later worked for the Public Health and Welfare Department of the US Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) as the administrator for the Japanese national training program for public health nurses between 1947 and 1952.

 Scope and Contents

Papers include correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and military records pertaining to Josephine Hobbs Kaser’s career as an Army nurse assigned to the USAHS Marigold during World War II, and to her job as a public health nurse in Japan in the postwar years. The correspondence is primarily from Jo to her mother with occasional letters to her sister Mary Rasor. The letters reveal much about Kaser’s daily life aboard a military hospital ship, as well as her observations of culture and conditions in postwar Asia. The bulk the photographs depict the aftermath of the War in the Philippines and Japan, and to a lesser extent postwar Italy, Sicily, and Capri.

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 Preferred Citation

Josephine Hobbs Kaser Papers, 1942-1973, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 4Zf44 Correspondence, 1942-1945, 1947-1949 4Zf44 Correspondence, 1950-1966 4Zf44 Journal, 1947 4Zf44 Photographs, circa 1944-1945 4Zf44 Publications: 4Zf44 <emph render="italic">Life</emph> magazine, September 10, 17, 1945, October 8, 1945 4Zf44 <emph render="italic">Yank</emph> magazine, February 16, September 7, December 28, 1945 4Zf44 <emph render="italic">Nippon Times</emph>, September 23, 1945 4Zf44 <emph render="italic">Stars and Stripes-Pacific</emph>, November 7, 1945 4Zf44 Military Papers, 1943-1945 4Zf44 Japan, 1943-1952 4Zf44 Ephemera, 1943-1945 4Zf44 Clippings, 1945 4Zf44 Identification Cards, Passports, and Similar Documents, 1943-1973 4Zf44 Drawings & Cards, circa 1945 LIBRARY Books: LIBRARY <emph render="italic">Japan in Pictures, 1945-1951</emph> LIBRARY <emph render="italic">The Best from Yank: the Army Weekly</emph>, 1945