Women
Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:
Doreen Gandy Wiley papers
Papers of an Oregon writer and poet who grew up in the Philippines. Includes correspondence and publicity concerning Doreen Gandy Wiley's books, materials relating to the Philippines, and materials by and about poet Ruth Robertson, 1907-1910.
Ava Williams papers
Women collection
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.
Women in Communications, Inc., Portland chapter records
The Portland chapter of Women in Communications, Inc. was chartered June 24, 1947, as the Portland Professional Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, a society for women in journalism and communications, and later became the Portland Professional Chapter of Women in Communications, Inc. Records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, newsletters, miscellaneous administrative records, brochures, financial documents, newsletters, budgets, and surveys.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom records
Collection includes correspondence, documents, newsletters, and clippings relating to human rights, the Jeanette Rankin Brigade, various Oregon peace action groups, disarmament, the draft and Angela Davis; by-laws, constitution, minutes, and membership lists.
Women's Overseas Service League records
The Women's Overseas Service League was a national organization founded in 1921; the Portland chapter was formed in 1923. Collection includes scrapbooks; membership lists; newspaper clippings; officer lists; certificates; organizational histories; programs; minutes; correspondence; obituaries; and financial records.
Nanny Wood collection
Handwritten notebooks of Nanny Wood of Portland, Oregon, including details on her gardening activities and flora of interest to her. Also included is an illustrated manuscript on Wood's life and garden, as well as a typescript history of the Skidmore Fountain by Wood's husband, the artist and lawyer Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Nanny Wood's garden is now a portion of the grounds of the Portland Garden Club.
Elsie Corbit Woods diary
Diary of a woman from southern Illinois who came to Oregon to join her husband, William Patrick Woods, in 1937. Brief entries include details of everyday life, housework, cooking, work at the telephone company in Illinois, family, friends, travel, and the author's emotional life.
Jean Young papers
Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records
Records of a YWCA center located in the Albina neighborhood of northeast, Portland, Oregon, which served the African American community. Includes historical background, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, surveys, study workbook, and papers on relief for people displaced by the 1948 Vanport flood.