Women

Clippings, publications, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the shipbuilding career of Hermina "Billie" H. Strmiska (1908-1993) during World War II. Strmiska worked as a welder in Portland, Oregon, and participated in women's welding contests, including a national championship held in Pascagoula, Mississippi, which she lost to Vera Anderson.

Album containing 12 card photographs, nearly all of which are studio portraits of Bessie Thompson Teal (1867-1943) at various ages, from 2 to her late 30s. Teal was the daughter of Oregon politician David P. Thompson and Mary Meldrum Thompson.

Bound scrapbook and loose scrapbook pages with clippings, documents, photographs, badges, and ribbons relating to the Terwilliger Tillers. The Terwilliger Tillers was a women's gardening club based in southern Portland, Oregon, that was active from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Tuesday Afternoon Club was a gardening club in Portland, Oregon. It was dissolved in 1963. Collection includes constitution; pamphlets; membership lists; papers regarding club activities; papers regarding the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Portland Federation of Women's Organizations; a guest book; and minute books.

A small collection of papers of the Oregon historian and author Frances Fuller Victor, including: correspondence with early emigrants to Oregon Jesse Applegate and Jessy Q. Thornton; typescript of a poem; a copy of her work "The Women's War with Whisky"; and a scrapbook of reviews of Victor's works.

Oral history interview with Evelyn E. Waldren, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 5, 1980. Waldren discusses her career as a flight instructor and airport operator, and describes the flight she made from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Tijuana, Mexico, in 1941, which set the women's records for speed and distance.

Collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, and pamphlets regarding Leona Weatherford's involvement in the conservation movement and women's clubs in Oregon. Weatherford was president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs and chair of the Conservation of Natural Resources Department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Oral history interview with Vince Whiting conducted by Kim L. Andrews from July 1 to December 2, 2019. Whiting speaks about his wife, Pat Whiting, who was the first Filipina to be elected to the Oregon State Legislature.

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.