Women
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Lone Pine Farm photograph album
Album containing primarily engravings and photographs clipped from newspapers and other publications, and a small number of photographic prints. The clippings are of notable people, most of them women, particularly wives of United States politicians and presidents, and royalty and nobility of various nations. The photographs, most on pages labeled "Lone Pine Farm," depict a house and grounds, as well as unidentified people.
Lord & Schryver Conservancy collection on landscapes at Gaiety Hollow and Deepwood Estate
Materials relating to the exhibit "Matri/Archs: pioneering women architects of Oregon"
Dorothy Lawson McCall papers
The papers of Oregon author Dorothy Lawson McCall (1888-1982) include typescript drafts for the books "Khaki Pants and a Tall Silk Hat" and "Prineville" and newspaper clippings about her bid for governor of Oregon.
Mae Sutherland McCann collection of Lida M. O'Bryon family photographs and memorabilia
Photographs, newspaper clippings, election cards, and biographical and genealogical information relating to Lida M. O'Bryon (1876-1966) and her family, gathered by Mae Sutherland McCann (1886-1983). Lida M. O'Bryon was one of the first women lawyers to practice in Portland, Oregon, and served as a deputy district attorney. McCann was a friend of O'Bryon's.