Terwilliger Tillers scrapbook and scrapbook pages
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one bound scrapbook and loose scrapbook pages documenting the history of the Terwilliger Tillers, a women's gardening club based in southern Portland, Oregon. The contents include a brief history of the club's founding, and summaries of its activities in given years; the club's constitution; yearbooks that include the constitution, member rosters, and meeting schedules; newspaper clippings; photographs; and certificates, event programs, badges, and ribbons relating to gardening shows. The bound scrapbook covers the years 1953 through 1959, while the loose scrapbook pages cover the period of 1969 through 1972, including a yearbook for 1972-1973.
Dates
- Creation: 1953-1972
Creator
- Terwilliger Tillers (Club : Portland, Or.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Administrative History
The Terwilliger Tillers was a gardening club founded in 1953 for women in the Terwilliger Heights neighborhood of southern Portland, Oregon. It remained active into the 1970s.
Sources: Collection materials; articles in the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, 1953-1971.
Extent
0.46 Cubic Feet (1 flat box (14x18))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Bound scrapbook and loose scrapbook pages with clippings, documents, photographs, badges, and ribbons relating to the Terwilliger Tillers. The Terwilliger Tillers was a women's gardening club based in southern Portland, Oregon, that was active from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Pacific Pointe Retirement Inn, June 1999 (Lib. Acc. 23891).
Processing Information
Scrapbook pages with photographs had acid-free paper placed between them for preservation.
Subject
- Terwilliger Tillers (Club : Portland, Or.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Terwilliger Tillers scrapbook and scrapbook pages
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jeffrey A. Hayes
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland OR 97205 United States
5033065204
5033065240
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