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The collection consists of scrapbooks, personal and political correspondence, clippings, invitations and announcements, pamphlets, and ephemera of Nan Wood Honeyman, the first woman from Oregon to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat, 1937-1938).

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Oral history interview with Helen Nickum, conducted by Gregory Karnes in seven sessions, from January 25 to April 7, 2011, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Nickum talks about her career as a secretary in Portland, Oregon, and in Washington, D.C.; about her involvement in a sex-discrimination class action lawsuit; and about her work as executive secretary for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757.

Abstract Collection consists of materials relating to Grace Olivier Peck (1898-1979), her political career, and other activities, as well as some papers relating to other members of her family. Peck served in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1949 and again from 1957 through 1976. Materials relating to Peck include correspondence; minutes, letters, and other papers of organizations with which she was involved; and scrapbooks concerning her legislative career. The collection also...