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Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Genevieve Thompson Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1537
Abstract

Papers of Genevieve Thompson Smith (1883-1974), an author, playwright, and attorney of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts for stories and plays, a scrapbook, ephemera, and other materials.

Dates: 1892-1957

Margery Hoffman Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2660
Abstract Margery Hoffman Smith (born 1888) was a leading supporter of the arts, both in Portland, Oregon, and later in San Francisco. In the 1930s, Smith worked with the Works Progress Administration, supervising the handcraft work carried out for Timberline Lodge. Collection includes correspondence and diaries of Julia Hoffman, 1891-1934; correspondence of Margery Hoffman Smith, 1896-1981; papers related to Smith's professional and philanthropic activities; financial records; inventories and...
Dates: 1885-1986

Camille Somerville counselor's report for Kaiser shipyards and related images

 Collection
Identifier: Coll858
Abstract

Transcript of a counselor's report written June 7, 1943, by Camille Somerville (1901-1967), who worked as a matron for women workers at the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon. Also includes a photograph of Somerville in uniform and a photograph of the badge she wore. Somerville was born near Winnipeg, Canada, and came to Portland with her husband and three children about 1930.

Dates: 1943

Oral history interview with Maggie St. James

 Collection
Identifier: SR4500
Abstract

Oral history interview with Maggie St. James conducted by Jann Mitchell on June 26, 1985. St. James was the daughter of Ruth Barnett, an abortion provider in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1985 June 26

Billie H. Strmiska shipbuilding memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 939
Abstract

Clippings, publications, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the shipbuilding career of Hermina "Billie" H. Strmiska (1908-1993) during World War II. Strmiska worked as a welder in Portland, Oregon, and participated in women's welding contests, including a national championship held in Pascagoula, Mississippi, which she lost to Vera Anderson.

Dates: 1942-1945; Majority of material found within 1943 March-June

Bessie Thompson Teal photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 339
Abstract

Album containing 12 card photographs, nearly all of which are studio portraits of Bessie Thompson Teal (1867-1943) at various ages, from 2 to her late 30s. Teal was the daughter of Oregon politician David P. Thompson and Mary Meldrum Thompson.

Dates: circa 1869-1900

Terwilliger Tillers scrapbook and scrapbook pages

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 989
Abstract

Bound scrapbook and loose scrapbook pages with clippings, documents, photographs, badges, and ribbons relating to the Terwilliger Tillers. The Terwilliger Tillers was a women's gardening club based in southern Portland, Oregon, that was active from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Dates: 1953-1972

Homer J. E. Townsend collection on Mabel A. Wood

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 948
Abstract Materials relating to Homer J. E. Townsend's research on Mabel A. Wood (1896-1978) and the interment of her ashes, including correspondence, notes, newsletters, ephemera, and photographs. Wood taught home economics at the University of Oregon in Eugene and was the first woman to become a full professor at that university. Townsend (1917-2008) was a Presbyterian missionary and administrator who wrote biographical works about Wood, and who arranged for the interment of Wood's ashes in her...
Dates: 1887-1993; Majority of material found in 1993

Tuesday Afternoon Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2711
Abstract

The Tuesday Afternoon Club was a gardening club in Portland, Oregon. It was dissolved in 1963. Collection includes constitution; pamphlets; membership lists; papers regarding club activities; papers regarding the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Portland Federation of Women's Organizations; a guest book; and minute books.

Dates: circa 1900-1962

Frances Fuller Victor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1199
Abstract

A small collection of papers of the Oregon historian and author Frances Fuller Victor, including: correspondence with early emigrants to Oregon Jesse Applegate and Jessy Q. Thornton; typescript of a poem; a copy of her work "The Women's War with Whisky"; and a scrapbook of reviews of Victor's works.

Dates: 1874-1899