Papers of Ilia Alice Cowie-Freitas (née Young), a nurse from Vancouver, Washington, and her family. Cowie-Freitas attended nursing school at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon, and worked in Vancouver and then in Arizona. Papers include pages from a scrapbook that Cowie-Freitas kept while attending nursing school, photographs, correspondence, and a family history.

Collection includes scrapbooks with photographs, clippings and documents of the Schalk-Young family. Family members include Jean Eloise Davis, Dr. Dallas Schalk, Jean Young Schalk, Wallace Young, and members of the Graham family.