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Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Nanny Wood collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 223
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1894-2011; Majority of material found within circa 1925-1933

Elsie Corbit Woods diary

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 125
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1934-1938

Jean Young papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1863
Abstract Jean Young (1904-1992) served on the the King City, Oregon, city council and as mayor of King City. She also was vice-chairwoman of the Multnomah County Republican Party Central Committee and was a delegate to eight Republic national conventions. She was appointed to the Oregon State Wage and Hour Commission in 1947. Collection includes miscellaneous papers relating to Young's career in politics and the Republican Party in Oregon; legislation; correspondence; 1960 Oregon Census; papers...
Dates: 1941-1976

Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2384
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1918-1961