Abstract Nettie Rankin Bolland was a graduate of the University of Oregon Law School, a teacher at High School of Commerce (later Cleveland High School) in Portland, Oregon, and president of the Portland High School Teachers Association, the Portland Federation of Women's Organizations, the Republican Women's Club, and the Queen's Bench. Collection includes correspondence, reports, programs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and memorabilia regarding Bolland's involvement with the Portland Federation...

Abstract Oral history interview with Becky Johnson conducted by Rick Harmon and Jim Strassmaier from June 25, 1986, to March 31, 1993, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Johnson, who was the wife of Oregon State Representative Samuel S. Johnson, discusses her family background; her experiences during the Depression, Prohibition, and in college; her experiences serving with the WAVES during World War II; her husband and his work in the timber industry and as an Oregon legislator;...

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Dorothy McCullough Lee was a lawyer, a state legislator, and the first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical sketches; photocopy of Lee's last will and testament, 1972; inventory of Lee's papers at the Schlesinger Library of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and ephemera.

Abstract Records of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice Oregon, an organization that advocated for women's reproductive rights. The collection includes administrative records, correspondence, and programs and other materials relating to fundraising galas and auctions. The organization was founded in 1977 as Oregon Affiliate, National Abortion Rights Action League. It disaffiliated from the national NARAL organization in 2021, rebranding as Pro-Choice Oregon, and dissolved in...

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, membership lists, records, and scrapbooks regarding political campaigns in Oregon.

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A history of WINPAC (Women's Investment Network Political Action Committee), an Oregon organization founded in 1987 to support the election of women who support abortion rights to the Oregon Legislature. Founders included Betty Roberts, Jewel Lansing, Gretchen Kafoury, Darlene Hooley, Maureen Leonard, and Patricia McCaig.

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Collection assembled by the Oregon Historical Society relating to women in Oregon. Included are postcards with pro- and anti-suffrage images; correspondence; a scrapbook of the League of Women Voters; papers of various women's political groups; and newspaper clippings.