Women
Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:
Mira H. Ehrman papers
Mira H. Ehrman (1892-1982) was a civic leader in Portland, Oregon. She was a Red Cross volunteer and a member of numerous organizations. Perhaps her most important contribution was the founding of and participation in Portland's USO in 1942. Collection includes correspondence, notes, awards and honors, biographical and autobiographical information and reports, primarily regarding her work with the United Service Organizations.
Oral history interview with Nancie P. Fadeley
Oral history interview with Nancie P. Fadeley conducted by Linda S. Dodds on April 2, 1981. Fadeley discusses serving in the Oregon House of Representatives, and talks about her husband, Ed Fadeley, and his career as a lawyer and a state legislator.
Lucia S. Fear papers
Papers and family photographs of Lucia S. Fear (1862-1957). Fear was born in 1862 in Kansas, and worked as a lawyer there in the early 1880s. She and her family later moved to Portland, Oregon, where she participated in the Mazamas climb of Mt. Hood in 1894 and was a member of the Portland Woman's Club.
Oral history interview with Jesalee Fosterling
Oral history interview with Jesalee Fosterling conducted by Roberta Watts on April 11, 1978. Fosterling was executive director of Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette from 1968 to 1989.
Nellie Fox papers
Nellie Fox was an Oregon labor leader, a Democrat, and political director of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Collection includes correspondence, 1965-1986; minutes, 1967-1975; AFL-CIO reports, pamphlets, programs, constitution, by-laws, and convention material; campaign material for Labor Commissioner, 1978; speeches; and documents relating to women's rights and labor rights.
Jean Kendall Glazer oral history narrative
Oral history of Portland, Oregon art educator Jean Kendall Glazer (1918-2015), edited into narrative form by Patricia Rovainen. In the history, Glazer describes her upbringing, education, career, and family life. The history also includes some family photographs and a copy of Glazer's obituary.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn
Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Judy Yung on April 18, 1982, as part of the Chinese Women of America Research Project. Hing looks at photographs of the Chinese community in Portland, Oregon, taken in the early 20th century and discusses them, and talks about her family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser
Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser conducted by Jim Morris on December 6, 1981. Hiser was a photographer best known for her self-portraits.
Florence Hollister photographic collection
Collection consists of three photographs of Florence Hollister, wife of Claude N. Hollister. The images are a head and shoulders portrait of Hollister; a full-length portrait of Hollister as matron of honor at a 1935 wedding; and a photograph, credited to the Army Air Forces, of Hollister in uniform.