Women
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Virginia Merges Kletzer papers
Laura Jenkins Landers and Susie Jenkins Stokes papers
Papers relating to Laura Jenkins Landers (1908-2009) and Susie Jenkins Stokes (1915-2003) and their families. The sisters were born in Sicily Island, Louisiana, and were among the Black workers who moved to the Portland, Oregon, area in the 1940s. They worked in the shipyards during World War II, and as domestic workers after the war.
Cleta Brooks Lee papers
Unprocessed papers of an Oregon writer known for her autobiography "Sing above the pain: Cleta's story." Includes daily diaries spanning the years 1933 to 2007; correspondence with friends and family; notes; drafts of writings; clippings; and personal memorabilia.
Dorothy McCullough Lee collection
Dorothy McCullough Lee was a lawyer, a state legislator, and the first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical sketches; photocopy of Lee's last will and testament, 1972; inventory of Lee's papers at the Schlesinger Library of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and ephemera.