Women
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
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 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.
Nan Wood Honeyman papers
The collection consists of scrapbooks, personal and political correspondence, clippings, invitations and announcements, pamphlets, and ephemera of Nan Wood Honeyman, the first woman from Oregon to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat, 1937-1938).
Institute for Managerial and Professional Women records
Administrative and annual conference records of the Portland, Oregon-based women's business organization Institute for Managerial and Professional Women. The records date from 1979-1988.
Oral history interview with Gertrude Glutsch Jensen
Oral history interview with Gertrude Glutsch Jensen conducted by Roberta Watts from December 7, 1977, to January 17, 1978. Jensen was active in the campaign to preserve the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon and Washington.
Ada Johnson scrapbook
Scrapbook, 1904-1910, kept by Ada Johnson of Portland, Oregon, with diary entries and newspaper clippings, programs and other ephemera for women's political and social activities, Chautauqua, Epworth League, Baptist organizations, and the Heilig Theatre.
Vivian A. Johnson correspondence
Vivian A. Johnson (1912-1977) was a Portland native and professor of physics at Purdue University. Collection includes correspondence to family and friends.