Women
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
Eunice C. Brandt papers
Papers of Eunice C. Brandt (1917-2000), an Oregonian who was an artist, landscape architect, and writer. The collection includes correspondence, story manuscripts, property and business records, and designs.
Oral history interview with Jessie Laird Brodie
Oral history interview with Dr. Jessie Laird Brodie conducted by Roberta Watts from February 14 to March 30, 1978. Laird was the first executive director of Planned Parenthood in Oregon.
Mary Jane Carr papers
Mary Jane Carr was a children's writer and editor of the children's page in the Oregonian newspaper. Papers include biographical information and correspondence, 1916-1976, concerning Carr's works, the Disney film "Westward ho the wagons," and the gift of the manuscript of "Young Mac of Fort Vancouver" to the Kerlan collection at the University of Minnesota. Also included are manuscripts, typescripts, and clippings of poems, stories, scripts, and songs.
Challenge and progress (points of progress)
Jeannette McPherson Gates was a Northwest poet, author, teacher, and historian. She earned her MBA in 1949 and was active in the NAACP, Citizens for Inter-racial Understanding, and Democratic Women of Multnomah County. Collection consists of a typescript book regarding Gates' own life and the history of the civil rights movement.
Marcella Clark statement to the president of the United States
Typescript carbon copy statement, circa 1916-1920, by Marcella Clark to the president of the United States describing abuses of justice she suffered at the hands of her estranged husband, A. E. Clark, the police department of Portland, Oregon, and the courts of Oregon, including illegal divorce and imprisonment.
Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman
Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.
Ola Delight Cook papers
Ola Delight Cook (1880-1958) was a railroad telegrapher, charter member of Commercial Telegraphers Union, worker for the American Federation of Labor, and an honorary trustee of Portland Central Labor Council. Collection includes correspondence, constitutions, financial reports and minutes relating to railroad unions, the AFL, the Portland Labor Temple and the YWCA, 1953-1958, Oregon political campaigns, 1948-1958, and Central Labor Council; diaries, 1914-1955; and ledger.
Carrie Cooley diaries
Diaries of a woman who lived in Newberg, Oregon. The diaries contain brief daily entries, with details on housework, shopping, friends, family, travel, and local events.
Coronation of Womanhood posters
Two copies of a poster entitled “The Coronation of Womanhood,” and the corresponding identification key. The poster was commissioned and designed by Abigail Scott Duniway in 1884 to honor supporters of the equal-suffrage movement.
Ellen Hazard Cox papers
Diaries of Katherine Lucy and Emily Bancroft Trevett, materials relating to the 1941 Oregon Trail Pageant, and calendars and exhibit ephemera.