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"A Page a Day" perpetual diary. The entries cover January 1 - July 25, 1943, and June 21 - September 14, 1944.

Typed "Transcription of Diary of Jeanette Goldberg," prepared and annotated by her daughter, Joyce Ellman. 53 pages.

• "Carefully Prepared Plan Trains WAACs for Duty," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 8, 1943
• "The Women's Army Passes in Review," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1943
• "Gas Drill," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1943
• "President Reviewing WAACS on His War Camp Tour," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21, 1943
• "WAC's Here Sworn Into Army" and "WACs Hold Company Dinner," Fort Hamilton Post, Aug. [9?], 1943
• "Your TC [Transportation Corps] Over One Year Old," Fort Hamilton Post, Sep. [?], 1943
• "Showmanship Gives Lift to Orientation," YANK: The Army Weekly, July 21, 1944. [Includes photographs of WACs at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, Jeanette Goldberg among them.]
• "Sgt. Pete Paris," YANK: The Army Weekly, Aug. 25, 1944
• "Off-Duty Appeal Added to Wac Winter Wardrobe," Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 3, 1944
• [Illustrated timeline of war highlights, July-August 1944], Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 31, 1944

• "1300 Boys are Back for Furlough Fun," [New York] Daily News, Jan. 14, 1945
• "Nazi Killed Rose, Trapped, Giving Up," New York Times, April 4, 1945
• "Surrender in Italy! 1st Photos," [New York] Daily Mirror, May 3, 1945
• "Timetable of Hitler's Ride on the Horror-Go-Round," [New York] Daily News, May 8, 1945
• "Happiness: Unconfined and . . . Subdued, Too," [New York] Daily Mirror, May 8, 1945
• "Germany's Act of Military Surrender," New York Times, May 9, 1945
• [Coverage of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany], New York Times, May 9, 1945
• "Atrocities: Capture of the German Concentration Camps Piles Up Evidence of Barbarism That Reaches the Low Point of Human Degradation," Life, May 1945
• "District [WACs] and 17 Others Missing in African Flight," Washington, D.C. Times-Herald, June 7, 1945
• "3 Isolated in Jungle Valley Await Aid," [New York] Daily News, June 9, 1945
• "Soldiers Don't Travel on Their Stomachs," unidentified newspaper, July 6, 1945. [Includes photograph of Sgt. Jeanette Goldberg.]
• "13th Armored Sailing for Home and the Pacific," [New York] Daily News, July 20, 1945. [Includes photograph of Sergeant Jeanette Goldberg embracing her brother, Sergeant Robert Goldberg.]
• "U.S. Fliers Drop Mig[hty] Atomic Bomb on Japan; Shock Power Exce[ed]s 20,000 Tons of TNT," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Aug. 6, 1945
• "Jews in U.S. Zone of Reich Find Conditions Improving—Status in Other Countries Surveyed," New York Times, Aug. 26, 1945
• "He's Mild and Meek—Except With Krauts!," [YANK: The Army Weekly?], [1945]. [Profile of Walter D. Ehlers (1921–2014), who would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II.]

Material dated June 2 - December 26, 1942, including "Tentative WAAC Drill Regulations," a memorandum of base rules and regulations for the 2nd WAAC Training Center, Daytona Beach, and the pamphlets "Day by Day in Daytona Beach, Florida," "Daytona Beach Extends a Hearty Welcome to the W.A.A.C.," "Women May Now Serve With the U.S. Army in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps," and "Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Regulations."

Material dated February 5 - October 1, 1943, including an issue of "Waactivities" (May 7, 1943), a magazine for and by the personnel of the 2nd WAAC Training Center, Daytona Beach, Florida, and the pamphlets "WAAC Song-Book," "Boston Guide Right" (issued by the USO Greater Boston Soldiers & Sailors Committee)," "73 Questions and Answers About the WAAC," and a Special Service Bulletin of general information for WAACs at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

Material dated March 23 - September 15, 1944, including the books "Women's Army Corps Song Book" and Captain Stockbridge H. Barker's "So You're Going Overseas!"

Material dated January 17 - December 10, 1945, including a printed program for the musical production "3 Day Pass!" at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York. The show, a project of the Special Services Division, was tried out at Fort Hamilton before it was produced at military installations in the U.S. and overseas.

Includes the pamphlet "What to Do in New York. A complete guide for visiting Servicemen and Women," and an advertising flier reading "Danger! Women at Work. Be a 'Port' WAC in the Transportation Corps."

Twenty-one images in four sleeves, from an enveloped marked "Daytona Beach WAAC Photos Parading on the beach & Cantonment." Thirteen images are full or partial postcards with the captions
• "Informal discussion groups add interest to life in the WAAC"
• "The WAAC's own band parades at a training center"
• "A Company of the WAAC drilling at Daytona Beach, Florida"
• "Physical training keeps WAACs fit and alert"
• "At Ease on Beach"
• "WAACs on parade"
• "Retreat"
• "Drilling on Street"
• "Reporting at the Clarendon Hotel"
• "Cantonment"
• "Bugle Call"
• "Fall out, Tent City"
• "Repairing army truck

Thirty-three images in eight sleeves, from an envelope marked "Miscellaneous WAAC photos." Most show WAACs drilling, but some are more informal shots, like one of Goldberg and fellow service members at the U.S.O. Club of the Jewish Welfare Board, 9312 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

Two 8x10-inch photographs by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. One shows a female service member's neatly organized kit (uniforms, shoes, headgear, toiletries, etc.) displayed on her bunk. The other shows male service members in an office setting.

From an envelope marked "Recordings of WWII soldiers before they went overseas." Coin-operated Voice-O-Graph booths, which were once common fixtures of amusement parks and tourist attractions, allowed the general public to create recordings on six-inch, lacquer-coated discs that held about a minute of sound. The label on one disc is torn and partly missing, but the others read "Duke's Solo," "Hey Wait For Me," and "Oh Trudy I could shoot you."

Small banner (approximately 12 x 9 inches) featuring a profile bust of Pallas Athene, official insignia of the U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and the text "SERVING / IN THE / WAAC / U.S. ARMY." Printed in blue and red on a light (originally white?) satin (?) background, with a dowel for hanging at the top and gold tassels along the bottom.