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Washington Women's Heritage Project Records, 1979-1984
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Washington Women's Heritage Project
- Title
- Washington Women's Heritage Project Records
- Dates
- 1979-1984 (inclusive)19791984
1980-1983 (bulk)19801983 - Quantity
- 14.2 Linear Feet., ( )
- Collection Number
- XOE_CPNWS0025wwhp (collection)
- Summary
- The Washington Women's Heritage Project was a state-wide grant project designed to stimulate awareness of Washington women. The collection includes National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposals, working notes, correspondence, western region budget records, travel expenses, personnel files, planning reports, research topics and sources, slide tape display records, oral history cassette tapes and transcriptions, publicity and press releases, workshop information, display photographs and Whatcom County Women's Network Newsletter.
- Repository
-
Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Goltz-Murray Archives Building
808 25th St.
Bellingham, WA
98225
Telephone: (360) 650-7534
cpnws@wwu.edu - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the Washington State Legislature to the Washington Women's History Consortium. Funding for encoding the finding aid was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Washington Women’s Heritage Project (WWHP) was a statewide grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1980 to 1984. The project’s goal was to “stimulate public awareness and interest in the lives of women in Washington State, as well as to involve them in their respective communities, discovering and documenting their diverse heritage.” The project originated in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when women’s history and women’s studies emerged as legitimate areas of study at many United States colleges and universities. The idea for this project originated with a graduate student in the history department at Western Washington University and was endorsed by Kathryn Anderson, a women’s studies professor in Western’s Fairhaven College.
The project was a statewide effort based at four regional centers. The Northwest center was located at Western Washington University which was also the administrative hub of the project. The project director, Kathryn Anderson, who coordinated the four offices and managed the grants was located at the NW center with Cynthia Cornell as the coordinator for the NW office. The Seattle center was located at the University of Washington with Susan Starbuck as its coordinator. Margot Knight coordinated the Eastern Washington center which was located at Washington State University in Pullman. The Southwest center of the project was coordinated by Laura O’Brady and was located at Evergreen State College in Olympia. Participation in this project went beyond the four offices affiliated with higher education to include many women’s groups, historical societies, and other community members interested in integrating women’s history into the traditional historical record.
The project resulted in a traveling exhibit that consisted of a photograph panel display, a corresponding brochure, and a slide-tape show. The photograph display consisted of twelve 4’x 8’ panels that each had a different theme. David Jensen designed and supervised the printing and layout of the panels so that the resulting exhibit allowed the “materials their greatest possible impact.” The photo display also consisted of a local panel for each display site which consisted of photos and text distinct to that location. This panel changed with each new stop of the tour.
The slide-tape show was a 13 1/2 minute production that combined 14 audio segments from the oral histories gathered as part of the project with over 130 photographs. The show portrayed three aspects of Washington women’s work: 1) housework, 2) wage work, and 3) community work. The themes were tied together with brief narration and an original song by Linda Allen entitled “Here’s to the Women.”
In order to create this exhibit the project staff collected photographs from around the state from archives, museums, and private collections. They trained over 300 people statewide how to conduct oral history interviews through a series of workshops and then utilized the resulting oral histories to document women’s history in Washington. These oral histories were conducted with women from a variety of backgrounds including immigrants, Native Americans, farm wives, factory workers, women with higher education, and women involved in civic activities. They also combed archival material to get information on women’s activities in clubs, public schools and politics.
Overall, this was an ambitious project that culminated in an exhibit which traveled to 31 different locations over a 2 year span. The exhibit was also featured at three national conferences in 1982-1983, thus allowing a large number of people to be exposed to women’s history in Washington State. In addition to the exhibit several scholarly papers, panels, and workshops developed out of the project.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The materials generated by the Washington Women’s Heritage Project have been donated to five different locations, including the four regional repositories along with the exhibit’s placement at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma. The items in this part of the collection include all of the records generated from the Northwest center of the project, located at Western Washington University, which includes the grant administration records, the final report of the project, and numerous parts of the exhibit development process. The records cover the project from 1979-1984, however, the bulk of the records are from the years 1980-1983. Also included in the records are photographs and negatives from various repositories that span the 1890s-1940s.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Washington Women's Heritage Project Records, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The Washington Women's Heritage Project Records are organized according to the following series and sub-series arrangement:
- Series I: Final Report, 1983-1984
- Subseries 1. Drafts
- Subseries 2. Planning
- Subseries 3. Correspondence Regarding the Final Report
- Series II: Grant Administration, 1979-1984
- Subseries 1. Grants
- Subseries 2. Correspondence
- Subseries 3. Financial/Legal
- Subseries 4. Personnel
- Subseries 5. Organization
- Series III: Exhibit, 1890s (photographs)-1987
- Subseries 1. Planning
- Subseries 2. Production
- Subseries 3. Display
- Subseries 4. Publicity
- Subseries 5. Handbook
- Subseries 6. Workshops
- Subseries 7. Scrapbook
- Series IV: Oral Histories, 1972-1981
- Subseries 1. Interview Format and Procedure
- Subseries 2. Abstracts of Transcript/Summary Files
- Subseries 3. Audio Cassette Recordings
Custodial History
The records from the Washington Women's Heritage Project were donated to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies in 1998 by Kathryn Anderson.
Processing Note
The records have been handled several times since being donated to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, therefore the original order is uncertain. In processing this collection the materials have been transferred to acid free file folders and boxes. Photographs and negatives were placed in protective sleeves for preservation purposes. The materials initially fell into three series: the final report, grant administration, and the exhibit. In 2004, Amber Raney re-engineered the collection to reflect standards set for the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) consortium. At this time the materials were reorganized in order to create the fourth series - Oral Histories.
Processing Note
About Harmful Language and ContentTo learn more about problematic content in our collections, collection description and teaching tools (including how to provide feedback or request dialogue on this topic), see the following Statement About Potentially Harmful Language and Content
Separated Materials
For additional items generated by this project contact the Manuscript collection at Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington, Manuscript Archives and Special Collections at Holland Library at Washington State University, the State Archives in Olympia, or the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Series I : Final Report , 1983-1984 Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Sub-series
1
:
Drafts
|
1983 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Final report draft |
1983 |
| 1/2 | Final report |
1983 |
Sub-series 2
:
Planning
|
1983 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/3 | Publications created by the Washinton Women's Heritage
Project |
1983 |
| 1/4 | Aberdeen materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 1/5 | Bellevue and Bremerton materials for Final
Report |
1983 |
| 1/6 | Bellingham materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 1/7 | Chimacum materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 1/8 | Olympia materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 1/9 | Pullman materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 1/10 | Seattle budget summary |
1983 |
| 1/11 | Seattle materials for Final Report (1 of
2) |
1983 |
| 1/12 | Seattle materials for Final Report (2 of
2) |
1983 |
| 2/1 | Tacoma materials for Final Report |
1983 |
| 2/2 | Vancouver materials for Final Report |
1983 |
Sub-series
3
:
Correspondence re. Final Report
|
1984 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/3 | Letter of receipt and acceptance of Final Report by
the National Endowment for the Humanties |
February 21, 1984 |
Series II: Grant Administration , 1976-1984 Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Sub-series 1
:
Grants
|
1978-1984 | |
NEH Grants
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/4 | Application for American Association for State and
Local History, by Linda Mariz (AASLH funded by NEH) |
1980 |
| 2/5 | Application for NEH Implementation Grant |
1981 |
| 2/6 | Budgets- NEH |
1978-1979 |
Correspondence
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/7 | Kathryn Anderson- NEH |
1981-1982 |
| 2/8 | Sarah Jacobus- NEH |
1981-1982 |
| 2/9 | Related to NEH Grant |
1979-1983 (bulk 1979-1981) |
| 2/10 | Grant additions- NEH |
1980 |
| 2/11 | Guidelines and application forms- NEH |
1979 |
| 2/12 | Guidelines and correspondence- NEH |
1981-1982 |
Implementation Grant
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/13 | Working notes- NEH (1 of 2) |
1980 |
| 2/14 | Working notes – NEH (2 of 2) |
1980 |
| 2/15 | Grant proposal (Draft)- NEH |
1980 |
| 3/1 | Extra copies |
1981 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 3/2 | Planning grant evaluation- NEH |
1979-1981 |
| 3/3 | Resumes- Project members- NEH (1 of 2) |
Undated |
| 3/4 | Resumes-Project members-NEH (2 of 2) |
Undated |
| 3/5 | Rewritten segments NEH |
1981 |
Other Grants
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 3/6 | Application- Washington Commission for the
Humanities (Seattle- Co-Respondents) |
September 25, 1981 |
| 3/7 | Application materials- Washington Commission for the
Humanities |
November 1981 |
| 3/8 | Application- Ella Higginson Project- Washington
Commission for the Humanities |
1980 |
| 3/9 | Drama grant- Washington Commission for the
Humanities |
1980 |
| 3/10 | Other grant materials |
1980-1984 |
| 3/11 | Other possible grants and endowments-
general |
1981 |
Sub-series
2
:
Correspondence
|
1979-1984 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 3/12 | Kathryn Anderson |
1981-1984 |
| 3/13 | Between project members |
1980-1983 |
| 3/14 | Bulk mail |
1981 |
| 3/15 | Endowments |
1979-1980 |
| 3/16 | General |
1981-1982 |
Mailing Lists
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 3/17 | Master Copy |
Undated |
| 4/1 | “Names” Washington Women's Heritage
Project |
Undated |
| 4/2 | Other lists |
1980 |
| 4/3 | Women’s Clubs |
Undated |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 4/4 | National Women’s Studies Assn. |
1981 |
| 4/5 | Staff Memos- Notebook |
January 1980 – April 1982 |
| 4/6 | Thank-you letters |
1982 |
| 4/7 | Washington Women's Heritage Project
newsletter |
1980-1981 |
| 4/8 | Women’s groups |
1981 |
| 4/9 | Women’s Network of Whatcom County |
1979-1982 |
| 4/10 | Women’s Network Newsletters |
1979-1980 |
| 4/11 | Women’s Network Newsletters |
1981 |
| 4/12 | Women’s Network Newsletters |
1982 |
| 4/13 | Women’s Network Newsletters |
1983 |
Sub-series
3
:
Financial/Legal
|
1976-1983 | |
Budget
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 4/14 | Budget |
1980-1981 |
| 4/15 | Budget Information |
1980-1981 |
| 4/16 | Budget over-runs in Bellingham |
Undated |
| 4/17 | Completed Cost Sharing Logs |
July 1979 – July 1980 |
| 4/18 | Invoice Vouchers |
Undated |
| 4/19 | Payroll Appointment Forms |
1981-1982 |
| 4/20 | Petty Cash |
1980-1982 |
| 4/21 | Photo Budget Request by Mary Cain |
1981 |
| 4/22 | Planning Grant Ledger Sheets |
1980 |
| 4/23 | Purchase Requisitions |
1981-1982 |
| 5/1 | Quarterly Report Forms (Support) |
Undated |
| 5/2 | Quarterly Report Forms Document |
Undated |
| 5/3 | Receipts for Grant Expenditures |
1980-1983 |
| 5/4 | Status Printouts |
1980-1984 |
| 5/5 | Summary Time Records |
1981 |
| 5/6 | Summary Time Records (Completed) |
July 1981 – May 1982 |
| 5/7 | Washington Women's Heritage Project Budget
Details |
1982 |
Contracts
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 5/8 | Exhibit Traveling Contracts |
Undated |
| 5/9 | Permissions for Use |
1983 |
| 5/10 | Photograph Contracts |
1981-1982 |
| 5/11 | Photograph Contracts |
1983 |
| 5/12 | Subcontracts (UW and WSU) |
1981-1982 |
Travel
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 5/13 | Mary Cain’s Travel |
1981 |
| 5/14 | Expense Vouchers |
1981-1982 |
| 5/15 | Forms |
1981-1982 |
| 5/16 | Parking Application for WWU |
1981-1982 |
| 5/17 | Planning Grant |
1980 |
| 5/18 | Receipts (Recorded) |
1981 |
| 5/19 | Regulations |
1976 and 1981 |
| 5/20 | Forms- Basic WWHP Forms |
Undated |
Sub-series
4
:
Personnel
|
1980-1982 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6/1 | Linda Allen |
Undated |
| 6/2 | Kathy Bruneau- Native American Coordinator |
1980 |
| 6/3 | Mary Cain |
Undated |
| 6/4 | Chris Chick |
Undated |
| 6/5 | Cynthia Cornell |
Undated |
| 6/6 | Vivian Dreves |
Undated |
| 6/7 | Employment Forms |
Undated |
Exhibit
Consultants
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6/8 | Bellingham Area |
Undated |
| 6/9 | Pullman |
Undated |
| 6/10 | Seattle |
Undated |
| 6/11 | Susan Koester |
Undated |
| 6/12 | Linda Mariz- Regional Planning Coordinator
|
Undated |
| 6/13 | Martha (Kathy) Mathisen |
Undated |
| 6/14 | Personnel List and Correspondence |
1981-1982 |
| 6/15 | Kathleen Watt |
Undated |
Sub-series
5
:
Organization
|
Undated | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6/16 | File Plan |
Undated |
Series III: Exhibit, ca. 1890's-1987 Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Sub-series
1
:
Planning
|
1980-1987 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 7/1 | Calendar Sheets |
January 1980-January 1981 ; July 1981-December 1981 |
| 7/2 | Evaluation Article (Psychological Layout) |
1976 |
| 7/3 | Exhibit Insurance |
1981 |
| 7/4 | In-House Communication |
1980-1982 |
| 7/5 | Meetings, Agendas, and Timelines |
1981 |
| 7/6 | Organizational Meetings |
1980 |
Research
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 7/7 | Archival Sources- Inventory to AAUW Collection at
CPNWS |
June 1987 |
| 7/8 | Archival Sources (Not Published) |
Undated |
| 7/9 | Archival Sources (Published) |
Undated |
| 7/10 | Article- “The Challenge of Women’s History” by Sue
Armitage |
1980 |
| 7/11 | Article- “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproductions” by Walter Benjamin |
Undated |
| 7/12 | Mary Cain’s Photography Article |
1980 |
| 7/13 | Original Panel Quotes |
Undated |
| 7/14 | Other Research Materials |
Undated |
| 7/15 | References- Related Projects |
Undated |
| 7/16 | Re: Community Building and Research |
Undated |
| 7/17 | Research Topics |
Undated |
| 7/18 | Rural Women Contact File |
Undated |
| 7/19 | Skagit County Project |
1980 |
Slide/Tape
Development
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 8/1 | Contact Xeroxes (1 of 3) |
Undated |
| 8/2 | Contact Xeroxes (2 of 3), |
Undated |
| 8/3 | Contact Xeroxes (3 of 3) |
Undated |
| 8/4 | Correspondence, Publicity and General
Information |
Undated |
| 8/5 | David Current (Slide-Tape Designer) |
1981 |
| 8/6 | Equipment |
Undated |
| 8/7 | Format |
1981 |
| 8/8 | Narration Materials |
Undated |
| 8/9 | Presentation Letters of Request |
Undated |
| 8/10 | Quotes |
Undated |
| 8/11 | Slide Presentation Reservation Calendars |
Undated |
| 8/12 | Weekly Reports |
1981 |
| 8/13 | “Working and Caring a Photographic Exhibit”
|
Undated |
Sub-series
2
:
Production
|
1981-1982 | |
Design
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 9/1 | Design Material |
Undated |
| 9/2 | Exhibit Brochure |
Undated |
| 9/3 | Exhibit Designer- David Jensen |
Undated |
| 9/4 | Exhibit Evaluation and Guestbook |
1981-1982 |
| 9/5 | Exhibit Producers (Applications for) |
1981 |
| 9/6 | Jensen Exhibit System |
Undated |
| 9/7 | Master Logo |
Undated |
| 9/8 | Outline of Exhibit |
Undated |
Sub-series
3
:
Display
Researchers should note that photocopies
of images used in the slide/tape section of the WWHP exhibit duplicate other
photographic prints from the WWHP (also contained in this collection). These
are accompanied by more description than the original prints.
|
ca. 1890's-1981 | |
Contact Sheets of Negatives
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 9/9 | Anacortes Museum of History & Art |
|
| 9/10 | Everett Public Library |
|
| 9/11 | Island Co. Historical Society |
|
| 9/12 | Other Sources |
|
| 9/13 | Skagit Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 9/14 | Unknown Sources (1 of 2) |
|
| 9/15 | Unknown Sources (2 of 2) |
|
| 9/16 | Whatcom Museum |
|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 9/17 | Documentation of Photo Sources |
Undated |
| 9/18 | Documentation Re: Photo Selection |
Undated |
| 9/19 | Lists of Materials Missing from Washington Women's
Heritage Project Panels |
Undated |
| 9/20 | Local Panel- Bellingham |
Undated |
| 9/21 | Local Panel- La Conner |
Undated |
Negatives (Copy
Negatives)
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10/1 | Center for Pacific Northwest Studies |
|
| 10/2 | Unknown Sources |
|
Negatives (35mm)
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10/3 | Center for Pacific NW Studies |
|
| 10/4 | Everett Public Library |
|
| 10/5 | Island Co. Historical Society |
|
| 10/6 | San Juan Island Historical Society |
|
| 10/7 | Skagit County Historical Museum |
|
| 10/8 | Unknown Sources |
|
| 10/9 | Whatcom Museum |
|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10/10 | Photo Duplication and Use, Rules and Fees (various
repositories) |
1980-1981 |
| 10/11 | Photocopies of potential images for Photo
Panels |
Undated |
| 10/12 | Photographs of Display Panels |
Undated |
| 10/13 | Photographs of Finished Panels (except Panel #6 and
#7) |
Undated |
| 10/14 | Photographs of Washington Women's Heritage Project
Meeting |
Undated |
Photo List with Possible
Corresponding Quotes
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10/15 | Family/Kin |
Undated |
| 10/16 | Home to Work |
Undated |
| 10/17 | Housework |
Undated |
| 10/18 | Social Reform |
Undated |
| 10/19 | Women and Children |
Undated |
| 10/20 | Women Doing What Needed to be Done |
Undated |
| 10/21 | Women Together |
Undated |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10/22 | Photos, negatives and copies from images displayed on
Photo Panels (“Panels #2-#12”) |
Undated |
| 10/23 | Photo Project Notebook |
Undated |
Photo Index Cards
(3x5)
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11/1 | Anacortes Museum of History & Art |
|
| 11/2 | Center for Pacific NW Studies |
|
| 11/3 | Everett Community College |
|
| 11/4 | Everett Public Library |
|
| 11/5 | Island Co. Historical Society |
|
| 11/6 | Jefferson Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 11/7 | Lopez Island Historical Museum |
|
| 11/8 | San Juan Historical Society |
|
| 11/9 | Skagit Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 11/10 | Snohomish Co. Historical Society |
|
| 11/11 | Snohomish Co. Museum |
|
| 12/1 | Whatcom Museum of History & Art |
|
| 12/2 | Other Repositories |
|
| 12/3 | Unknown Sources |
|
Photo Index Cards
(4x6)
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 13/1 | Anacortes Museum of History & Art |
|
| 13/2 | Boeing Archives |
|
| 13/3 | Center for Pacific NW Studies |
|
| 13/4 | Everett Public Library |
|
| 13/5 | Island County Historical Society |
|
| 13/6 | Jefferson Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 13/7 | Lopez Island Historical Museum |
|
| 13/8 | San Juan Historical Society |
|
| 13/9 | Skagit Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 13/10 | STPA |
|
| 13/11 | Washington St. Historical Society |
|
| 13/12 | Whatcom Museum of History & Art |
|
| 13/13 | Other Repositories |
|
| 13/14 | Unknown Sources |
|
Photo Xeroxes
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 14/1 | Other Photos |
Undated |
| 14/2 | Photos Considered for Exhibit and Slide
Show |
Undated |
| 14/3 | Photo Selection |
Undated |
| 14/4 | Portraits |
Undated |
| 14/5 | Women Working |
Undated |
Printed
Materials
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 14/6 | Quotes for Photo Captions |
1981 |
| 14/7 | Text for Photo Panels (1 of 3) |
1981 |
| 14/8 | Text for Photo Panels (2 of 3) |
1981 |
| 14/9 | Text for Photo Panels (3 of 3) |
1981 |
Prints (8x10)
|
circa 1890s-1940s | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 15/1 | Cowlitz Co. Historical Society |
|
| 15/2 | Everett Public Library |
|
| 15/3 | From Lucile Mason |
1900-1912 |
| 15/4 | Jefferson Co. Historical Society |
|
| 15/5 | Lopez Island Historical Museum |
|
| 15/6 | San Juan Historical Museum |
|
| 15/7 | Skagit Co. Historical Museum |
|
| 15/8 | Unknown Sources (1 of 4) |
|
| 15/9 | Unknown Sources (2 of 4) |
|
| 15/10 | Unknown Sources (3 of 4) |
|
| 15/11 | Unknown Sources (4 of 4) |
|
| 15/12 | Unknown Sources ("labeled not WWHP") |
|
| 15/13 | Washington State Historical Society |
|
| 15/14 | Washington State University (1 of 2) |
|
| 15/15 | Washington State University (2 of 2) |
|
| 15/16 | Whatcom Museum (1 of 2) |
|
| 15/17 | Whatcom Museum (2 of 2) |
|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 16/1 | Prints (5x7) - Unknown Sources |
circa 1890s-1940s |
| 16/2 | Prints (4x5) - Unknown Sources |
circa 1890s-1940s |
Slide/Tape
Program
|
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 16/3 | Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (1 of
3) |
circa 1890s-1940s |
| 16/4 | Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (2 of 3)
|
circa 1890s-1940s |
| 16/5 | Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (3 of 3)
|
circa 1890s-1940s |
| 16/6 | Script |
October 1982 |
| 16/7 | Script and Outline- Various Drafts |
1981 |
Sub-series
4
:
Publicity
|
1980-1982 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 17/1 | Bellingham |
1980 |
| 17/2 | Brochure Text |
Undated |
| 17/3 | Calendar of Events |
1982 |
| 17/4 | Information from Public Relations Offices in Tacoma,
Seattle, and Bellevue |
1981-1982 |
| 17/5 | “Labyrinth” Newsletters (layout & final copy)
|
Undated |
| 17/6 | Newsletters |
1980-1984 |
| 17/7 | Newspaper Articles and Clippings |
1980-1981 |
| 17/8 | Other Printed Materials |
1980-1981 |
| 17/9 | “Pandora a Washington Women’s News Journal”
|
1977-1978 |
| 17/10 | Policy |
Undated |
| 17/11 | Posters, Fliers, Brochures, Etc. |
1981-1982 |
| 17/12 | Press Contacts |
Undated |
| 17/13 | Press Releases and Public Appearances |
1980-1982 (bulk 1982) |
| 17/14 | Pullman |
1980 |
| 17/15 | Skagit County |
1980 |
Sub-series
5
:
Handbook
|
1982 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 17/16 | Project Handbook |
1982 |
| 17/17 | Project Handbook (extra copies of various
sections) |
1982 |
Sub-series
6
:
Workshops
|
1979-1981 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 17/18 | Ads for Workshops |
circa 1981 |
| 17/19 | Exhibit Design |
1980 |
| 17/20 | Oral History Workshop |
1979-1980 |
| 17/21 | Oral History Workshop Guidelines |
Undated |
Sub-series
7
:
Scrapbook
|
1981-1987 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 18/1 | Coalition for Women of Whatcom County |
1981-1987 |
Series IV: Oral Histories, 1972-1982Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Sub-series
1
:
Interview Format and
Procedure
|
Undated | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 19/1 | Format for Indexing Collection |
Undated |
| 19/2 | Form Letter/Consent Form |
Undated |
| 19/3 | Forms |
Undated |
| 19/4 | Information Re: Transcript/Summary Files |
Undated |
| 19/5 | Interview Consent Forms |
Undated |
| 19/6 | Interviewing Information |
Undated |
| 19/7 | Tape Recording Inventory |
Undated |
| 19/8 | Oral History Workshops and Guidelines - Eastern
Washington |
Undated |
| 19/9 | Workshop - Oral History Workshop by Margot Knight
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1979-1980 |
Sub-series
2
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Abstracts of Transcript/Summary
Files
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1972-1981 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 19/10 |
Adams, Julia:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Chicago,
Illinois, Louisville, Kentucky, and Ketchikan, Alaska, Masset, BC
Subjects: family life, child-care,
child custody issues, divorce and occupations: housekeeping, secretary,
realtor, and hospital volunteer, the War Bride’s Act, and eloping.
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July 1, 1980 |
| 19/11 |
Baijot, Joan:
interviewed by Rachel Tanner
Note: Interview summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Alaska,
Seattle
Subjects: family heritage, (Mother
is a Tlingit Indian, Father is Norwegian) raising her siblings, boarding school
memories, caring for her mother and family relations, life in rural Alaska and
Seattle. Also: Gaining independence as a woman, feelings and introspections
about being a woman. Other topics mentioned in the interview include: illness,
hypnotism, fear of flying, and women's liberation.
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Undated |
| 19/12 |
Bailey, Elizabeth:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Danvers,
Minnesota; Norway; Ferndale, Washington
Subjects: family's migration to the
west, rural farming in Whatcom County, childbirth, illegitimate children,
family relations, family illness, electricity in the house, school, sports, and
childhood memories with good description of the different kinds of
entertainment and social events of rural life in the early 1900s, Indian and
settler relations, Frank Hillaire's fish business, and Indians in fishing
industry, the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) road
projects, and women's work during World War II.
Organizations: Young Mothers, Farm
Bureau Women, the Republican Party, the school board, the Parent Teacher
Association (PTA), and church related clubs
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July 1, 1980 |
| 19/13 |
Booman, Florence:
interviewed by Ande Case
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online. Some transcript notes missing or not included in file. Two
interviews, no date on second interview.
Geographic Locations: Holland;
Germany; Milwaukee; Minnesota; Seattle; Bellingham; Wenatchee; Columbia
Valley
Subjects: Farming, family history,
gold mining, trappers, hunters, romantic associations with mining, Balfour
Quarry, hazardous mining conditions, Native Americans, Indian life in Marietta,
Bow Farm, Carnegie public libraries, Lynden Library, Whatcom County Library
System, children's literature, bookmobiles, libraries and literacy, stereotypes
of librarians, philology, ethnobotany, pre-science age, science and technology,
science fiction, religions: the Bahai Faith, Methodist Church “Conference on
the Status of Women”, women’s work, politics between the sexes, women’s
liberation, and schools: Normal School, one room school houses, Kendall School,
Bennett School, schoolteachers, school conditions in mining towns in rural
Washington.
Organizations: Garden Club, Red
Cross, Public Library Board of Directors, United Nations
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February 3, 1981 |
| 19/14 |
Bloedel, Alice:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Germany;
Madrid, Spain; El Paso, Texas; Kansas; Wisconsin; Montgomery, Alabama; Idaho;
Spokane, and Bellingham, Washington.
Subjects: Early memories of World
War Two, tensions between her parents about whether or not to become Nazi
supporters, Gestapo, controversial marriages, work on Nazi farms in rural
Germany, foster families, school memories, family relations and estrangement,
and life in war torn Germany, immigration, the U.S. Air Force, women’s
independence, Bloedel mill relatives, women’s occupations such as: Tupperware
sales, woman insurance agents, childbirth conditions, birth control, raising a
family, women's liberation, racial incidents, divorce, and thoughts on being a
grandmother.
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March 20, 1980 |
| 19/15 |
Cable, Margaret:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Jamestown;
Sequim, Washington
Subjects: Life in Jamestown,
all-Indian communities, the Clallum Tribe, family life, marriage, pregnancy,
housework, crafts: basket weaving, braided rug making, diseases: small pox and
chicken pox white settlers brought and spread to the Indians, disease and
infant mortality, making crab traps, boathouses, canoe storage; recreation:
games, dancing, sailing, religion: Shaker Church community; illness, vivid
dreams, English language enforcement at school, forgetting of the Native Indian
language.
Organizations: Eagles
club
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August 6, 1980 |
| 19/16 |
Clancy, Alberta:
interviewed by Stephanie Kresge
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house. Interview forms/notes missing or not included.
Geographic Locations: Poplar, and
Great Falls, Montana; Fort Pect Indian Reservation; Seattle, Bellingham,
Washington
Subjects: Family history, Irish
Catholics, peasants, pregnancy, Ku Klux Klan activity, mentorship of nuns,
women's liberation, women’s clothing, occupations: housekeeping, store clerks,
working at Boeing during WWII, education, teaching, rural life, attitudes
towards teaching as a career, Fairhaven College, and religion.
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June 6, 1979 |
| 19/17 |
Celestine,
Aurellia: interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Jamestown;
Lummi; Marietta, Nooksack, Sequim, Milton, Washington
Subjects: Indian villages, local
Native American history, the Indian Relocation Act, Elwha Indians, and Indian
mill workers in Marietta, forced religion: Catholics, Shakers; childrearing,
education, mission schools: Tulalip Mission School, Cushmen School, Nooksack
Stickney Island school, Chemawa, and St. George School, Franciscan nuns, Sawnee
tribe in Victoria, BC, Lummi Nation, wedding ceremonies, midwifery and
childbirth, measles outbreaks, transportation, animal husbandry, house and farm
work, Puyallup hop picking, fish and other food preparation, cooking, canning,
household chores, sewing children's clothing; recreation: Native crafts, basket
making, Indian Pow-wows, fourth of July events, visiting at Neah Bay, dances,
Lummi, Stomish, Joe Hillaire teaches children how to dance, learning and
teaching traditional Indian songs and art forms, dances, “Warm Springs
Indians”; Indian languages: Clallum, Semiahmoo, and Lummi; land claims at
Tulalip Indian Agency, receiving Indian names, and gambling.
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July 23, 1980 |
| 19/18 |
Colfax, Lynda:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Neah Bay
Subjects: Deah and Makah Indians,
Nootka Indians, Canadian Klaquot Band, Clallum Indian-chief of the Pishk Tribe,
Native American Indian Councils; family relations, salmon and other food
preparation, eating habits, fishing conditions; traditional Indian crafts:
basket making, marriage, children, childhood, midwifery, healing arts,
religion, nursing relatives, traditional Indian songs, ceremonies, importance
of passing along the lineage to future generations.
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August 27, 1980 |
| 19/19 |
Cochran, Mary
Ellen: interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Montana;
Seattle, Tacoma, Washington
Subjects: Growing up during the
Great Depression, Flathead Native American Indians, French Canadian-Indians,
First Nations, family rules and customs, the Works Progress Administration
(WPA), hunger, bootlegging, recreation, racial diversity, Indian drinking
habits in Pioneer Square, USO Clubs and dances, covered wagons, homesteading, ,
Buffalo round-ups and roasts, religions: catholic, sex education.
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September 3, 1980 |
| 19/20 |
Dan, Bertha:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: La Connor,
Tulalip, Anacortes, Eastern and Western Washington
Subjects: Life in rural La Connor,
Washington, Swinomish Indian Reservation, homesteading, farming, trading,
wool-trading, water conditions, land, childhood games, fruit trees, fishing,
"Ashes" bread making, and other food preparation, memories of grandparents,
school memories, punishment for speaking Indian language at school,
interrelatedness of Salish Indian languages, canoe transportation, poor medical
conditions, recreation, canoe races, basketball; crafts: basket making; sex
education, chores, family punishments, learning to drive automobiles,
employment history: hospital work, retirement home, cannery and farm work,
fishing laws and shortages, traditions of sharing fish with Indian Elders,
relations between Native American Elders and youth.
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September 5, 1980 |
| 19/21 |
Dash, Elsie:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house. File was restricted until 2001.
Geographic Locations: Port
Townsend; Canary Islands; Portugal; South America; Hawaii; Washington
Subjects: Life during the Great
Depression as a child of mixed descent: Clallum Indian and Portuguese,
childhood traumas, and strained family relations, foster homes, Catholic nuns,
baptism, language difficulties, sea life, smokehouses, food preparation,
origins of Shaker Church religion, family responsibilities, taking care of
developmentally delayed brother, marriage, divorce, illness, depression,
education, Native American Tribal Council, Small Tribes of Western Washington,
National Congress of American Indians.
Organizations: Small Tribes of
Western Washington, National Congress of American Indians
|
September 6, 1980 |
| 19/22 |
Elenbaas, Jennie:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Holland;
Detroit, Michigan; Vancouver, BC; Everson, Washington
Subjects: Family immigration from
Holland, housework, farming, midwifery, migration west from Michigan by train
for "golden opportunity" that was promised by land agents in the Midwest, Dutch
language and barriers when moved to WA, gender roles relating to chores, sewing
since childhood; occupations: sewing; meat preparation, canning, cheese making,
Bellingham roads made of split logs, Guide Meridian description, food
harvesting and storage, bread making, recreation including hayrides, camping,
singing, church activities; farm equipment, school memories, dating,
correspondence with husband when he was in Navy, mothering, child birth, child
rearing, flu epidemic after WWI, illness, women’s hairstyles and reputation,
hair care, women socializing.
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July 16, 1980 |
| 19/23 |
Frank, Mary:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house. WWHP forms missing.
Geographic Locations: Nisqually,
Puyallup, Tacoma, Olympia, Roy, Cushman, Washington; Frank’s Landing
Subjects: Life in the
Nisqually-Puyallup area, and Nez Perce Indian Reservation, migrant work: berry
and hop picking in Nisqually, life at Mud Bay (Oyster Bay), boarding schools,
women Indian Elders doing field work, picking crops; babysitting, Tribal
registration, illness, strained family relations, foster care, Juvenile Hall
(Washington State Department of Social and Health Services?), latch-key
children, improper doctor-patient interactions, improper burials, marital
problems, divorce; recreation, Frank's Landing, army destroying land at Frank's
Landing, Indian names, lineages, Native American traditional crafts, basket
making, closeness with relatives, religion (Shaker), traditional marriage,
Indian names, Shoalwater-land base, reservation organization controversy,
Native American Indian history.
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August 20, 1980 |
| 19/24 |
Friend, Verna:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Whatcom
County; Missouri; Florida
Subjects: Good description of family and farm life in Sumas;
rural Whatcom County in the early 1900s; homesteading, childbirth, child
rearing, illnesses, recreation, gardening, food preparation, farming, chores,
and equipment as well as children's activities, games, social life, marriage,
4-H involvement, cooking, and home economics
Organizations: 4-H
|
July 31, 1980 ; August 1, 1980 |
| 19/25 |
George, Louisa:
interviewed by Linda Allen
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Whatcom
County, Nooksack, Goshen, Yakima, Seattle, Washington
Subjects: Nooksack Tribe, Indian
boarding school Stickney Home School, Native American Indian relations with
white settlers, arranged marriage, divorce, starvation, tuberculosis,
childbirth, poverty, infant mortality, Indian gambling, Pow-wows, Native
American traditional song and dance, crafts, and ceremonies. Descriptions of
face painting, bone games, and other rituals, religion; Christianity,
Pentecostal Church, Methodists, Shakers, translation of Christian hymns into
Native American languages (Chiliwack, Skagit) inherited ancestral Native songs,
difficulty of communicating family songs, work; logging, farming, cooking,
migrant labor, and agricultural work.
|
October 22, 1980 |
| 19/26 |
George, Louisa:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Whatcom
County, Nooksack, Goshen, Yakima, Seattle, Washington
Subjects: Nooksack Tribe, Indian
boarding school Stickney Home School, Native American Indian relations with
white settlers, arranged marriage, divorce, starvation, tuberculosis,
childbirth, poverty, infant mortality, Indian gambling, Pow-wows, Native
American traditional song and dance, crafts, and ceremonies. Descriptions of
face painting, bone games, and other rituals, religion; Christianity,
Pentecostal Church, Methodists, Shakers, translation of Christian hymns into
Native American languages (Chiliwack, Skagit) inherited ancestral Native songs,
difficulty of communicating family songs, work; logging, farming, cooking,
migrant labor, and agricultural work
|
July 18, 1980 |
| 20/1 |
Glass, Eva:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized; two
copies-one with notations. Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Montesano,
Hoquiam, Elma, Satsop, Tacoma, Burlington
Subjects: Divorce, foster care,
death, step father's alcoholism, tense relations with father, chores,
pregnancy, infant mortality, marriage, flu epidemic of 1918, relations with
neighbors, haying, farm work, food preparation, measles and rubella outbreak,
"acid hives", Recreation, dances, Lynden veterans post, women's
roles-agricultural extension service-bookkeeping, gardening. Household
appliances, chores, sewing, daughter's occupations, dancing
Organizations: Home Demonstration
Club, Goodwill Club, Laurel Grange Hall.
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August 4, 1980 |
| 20/2 |
Gloman, Evelyn:
interviewed by Joanna Sigler
Note: No Summary or Transcript.
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November 29, 1980 |
| 20/3 |
Hamer, Inga and
Francis Richard: interviewed by Sheri
Decker
Note: Rough Questionnaire Included.
No Summary or Transcript. Interview covers household tasks, mainly canning and
food preparation techniques. Sheri Decker’s work, which she chose to do without
a tape recorder, is included in its entirety. Also included are another
interviewer’s comments about the challenges of conducting an interview for an
oral history project.
|
Undated |
| 20/4 |
Hammes, Jennifer:
interviewed by Cathy Carulli
Note: Interview Summarized. Transcript available in-house. WWHP forms missing or not included.
Geographic Locations: Copper
Mountain; Winchester; Glacier
Subjects: Family (Millie and Norman
Pratt) were prospectors, hunters, mountaineers. Parents opened a cookhouse
mainly catering to firefighters in 1924. Worked in forest service as a "fire
lookout" at Copper Mountain and in Winchester ranger station, look out for
Japanese fighter planes, code work, contact with Church Mountain, isolation,
women in forestry, packing in their own food and supplies, cooking, sacred
feeling of nature, scared of heights, wanting to be brave--Mt. Redoubt, Mt.
Challenger, astronomy, artists, restoration of Winchester ranger station,
mentions her father's friend Joe Galbraith an old hunter and prospector, talks
about people she knew in Glacier, Bennet family, description of prospector's
cabins, Lone Jack goldmine, digging latrines on Winchester trails, women
friends would visit
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July 1, 1980 |
| 20/5 |
Haskins, Delia and
Rose Senior: interviewed by Kathy
Bruneau
Note: Interview Summarized. Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Quipper,
Vancouver; Tulalip; Vancouver Island; Chemawa, Oregon
Subjects: Conversation was recorded
between two women who worked at the Lummi Senior Center. Discussion focuses
upon school, childhood, housework, church life, transportation, locations:
Quipper, Vancouver, religious schools, crafts: spinning wool, knitting,
arranged marriage, Tulalip boarding school, Vancouver Island, Chemawa, Oregon,
importance of church in people's lives, discussion about intermarriage.
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July 23, 1980 |
| 20/6 |
Hovde, Jane:
interviewed by Elaine Horn
Note: Transcript available
in-house. WWHP forms missing or not included.
Geographic Locations: Bellingham,
Mt. Vernon, Stanwood, Camano Island, Blakely Island, Chuckanut Island,
Chuckanut Bay, San Juan Islands, Olympic Peninsula, Bellingham, Vancouver
Subjects: Interview covers Hovde's
artistic background from childhood through adulthood, family history in
Bellingham, Mt. Vernon, Stanwood, Camano Island, educational
background-University of Washington Northwest artists- teachers: Ambrose
Patterson, Mark Tobey, Walter Isaacs, and Jack Shadbolt. Interview mainly
focuses on Hovde's description and critique of her art work, feelings about
what it means to be an artist, process, style, definition of Northwest art,
Northwest School: subject matter, colors and color association, connections
with nature, birds, and environment, studied at Art Students League. Inspired
by Joyce Carey, Buddhist philosophy, travels to Italy as a painter, talks about
the painting form Abstract Expressionism, shows in Bellingham, painting Lummi
Native American Indian fishing nets, talks about her various paintings,
environmentalism, Vietnam war, use of poetry to influence painting, art
competitions, Seattle Art Museum, Whatcom Museum of History& Art, politics
of portraiture, the illustration process, use of studio painting. A biography
about Jane Hovde has been included as the last page of transcript. Folder also
contains two copies of a publication about Hovde's work with photographs of her
paintings. Booklets were produced by the Whatcom Museum of History & Art.
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July 28, 1972 |
| 20/7 |
H____, Ann
[pseudonym]: interviewed by Claudia Semar
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online. Materials were restricted until 1993. Tapes have been destroyed at
the request of the narrator. In the case of publication, interviewee requests
that names mentioned in the interview be changed to pseudonyms.
Geographic Locations:
Austria-Hungary; New York, NY; Pennsylvania; California; Bellingham
Subjects: Immigrant woman's life
experiences in the United States. Earliest memories of Austria-Hungary to the
age of 84 in Bellingham, WA, her life illustrates the burden of loneliness of
an immigrant woman without sufficient language skills to develop a support
system in a foreign and changing environment, isolation and loneliness, marital
struggles, feelings of estrangement, The Great Depression, fears of removal of
her eight children by the state. She discusses her lack of faith in her husband
for financial support should she leave him, and an inability to substantiate
whether her life experiences were common to other women of her age and class.
Her contact with other women was limited by her fears of state reprisals should
the authorities become informed of the family conditions.
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July 2, 1980 |
| 20/8 |
Lawrence, Arta:
interviewed by Linda Mariz
Note: Interview Summarized. Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Olympia,
Tenino, Bellingham, Davenport, Cheney, Marietta. Outside of WA: San Jose,
California; LaGrande, Oregon
Subjects: Interview begins with
memories of Lawrence's teacher and pioneer parents who migrated to Washington
Territory in 1888 from Ohio. Interview continues with family history in
Davenport, WA., school, family finances, Normal School, University of
Washington, teaching degree, library science degree, women in advanced
education, educational theory, Progressive Education Movement, influenced by
Horace Mann, John Dewey. Intuitive teaching (not from books) including more of
the arts, teaching in rural areas. Standardized testing member of the 20th
Century Club in Bellingham, mentions Helen Keller guest lecturer at Beck's
Theater. Women's Suffrage, Tuskegee Singers, Booker T. Washington's visits,
racial issues, Judge Lindsey's visit, gangs, lecture by Senator LaFollettes,
relations between WWU and the Bellingham community, YWCA and affiliations with
WWU, Seabeck summer camp/YWCA, Easter Seal Society member and fundraiser,
Senior Activities Program formed from ESS, grant agencies, Senior Citizen's
Center, other services for the elderly…White House Conference on Aging, reports
on nursing homes in Whatcom County, social services in Whatcom County,
philanthropic activities in Bellingham, development of the orthopedic wing of
St. Joseph's Hospital.
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July 18, 1980 |
| 20/9 |
Leppala,
Emma
Note: Interview Summarized. No
Transcript. WWHP forms missing or not included in folder.
Geographic Locations: Detroit,
Michigan; Finland
Subjects: Immigrant parents from
Finland, memories of childhood illness, father's lung disease from mine work,
descriptions of farm and home life, teaching, education, midwifery, childbirth,
memories of her mother, school memories, ideas about illness and not being able
to get a husband, encouraged by mother, moved to Detroit, occupations: domestic
work, child care-during the Great Depression: factory working conditions,
women's work, roles during marriage, housewife, discouraged to express emotions
of anger, history of husband's family who also came from Finland, description
of husband's job history; factory work in Detroit, welder at Ford, pregnancy,
conflicts between she and her husband about childrearing. Discusses memories of
raising her children, belonging to "Mother Singers" choir group, domestic work
as full time occupation, work at Jewish Community Center's summer camp, and
child development studies at Wayne State University. In Bellingham, worked at
Home Base Care Project, surveying needs of elderly people, census work, and day
care. Discusses women's liberation, job discrimination, thoughts about the
abortion issue, and problems with hysterectomy (performed by woman
gynecologist); ties her large blood loss to her grief over the death of JFK,
brother's cancer, psycho-somatic illnesses associated with siblings illnesses.
Member of "Recovery, Inc." self help program, use of community involvement to
help herself by helping others.
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June 10, 1980 |
| 20/10 |
Mason, Lucille:
interviewed by Kass Friend
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online. Includes one transcript from each interview, and one edited
transcript of May 10, 1979 interview.
Geographic Locations: Freedonia
(located between Burlington and Anacortes), Skagit County, Mount Vernon
Subjects: Begins with Mason's
memories of her grandparents (German Immigrants), migration from New Jersey to
Inglewood, Washington with 13 children in 1889 near Lake Sammamish. Tells about
transportation to Seattle by boat. Uncle settled in what was Freedonia, between
Burlington and Anacortes. Mother (dressmaker), Father (teacher), home
schooling, home made clothing, memories of one room school house and having her
father as her teacher, education in Skagit County, Mount Vernon, women's higher
education, discussion about women's colleges, teaching botany, micro-biology
while raising a child, being pregnant while teaching: unusual. Discussion of
tension during WWII when schools attendance was down because west coast so
close to Japan. Discusses "box socials", fundraising for charity, sex
education, attitudes about sex, birth control, incest, pre-marital relations,
monetary discrimination for female teachers, suffrage amendment, voting rights,
alternatives women's roles, discussion about life pre welfare, charity, poor
farm, women's social customs, talks about her relationship with son, David
Mason - former Fairhaven College professor.
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May 24, 1979 |
| 20/11 |
Melcher, Genevieve
Maurine: interviewed by Lynn Dunlap
Note: Partial transcript available
in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Fairhaven,
Fort Bellingham, Lummi Island, Spokane, Tonasket
Subjects: Father worked on "Indian
Territory" Survey, building wooden streets in Fairhaven, Fort Bellingham,
gardening, food production, cannery work, homesteading Lummi Island, mother's
childbirth, emotional breakdown, poverty, illness: alcoholism, consumption,
typhoid fever, migration to Bellingham by train, pioneers, description of
dwellings, agriculture, nature, Indian/Settler relations, school memories, 1920
influenza epidemic, use of derogatory comments and terms for Japanese, Native
Americans, teaching career, Spokane, Tonasket, mining, ran a resort. Canadian
patrons receded during WWII; bankruptcy. A booklet called "The Lummi Island
Story" by Frank M. Taft is also included in folder.
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July 19, 1980 |
| 20/12 |
Morford, Rose:
interviewed by Hilary Thomson
Note: Interview Summarized. No
transcript.
Geographic Locations: Wisconsin;
Seattle; Yakima; California; Gig Harbor; Bremerton
Subjects: Migration west from
Wisconsin, WWII, work in Seattle dockyards, farm life in Eastern Washington,
homesteading, WWI soldiers, hop harvesting, housework, nursing, life in Fresno,
cannery work, abuse, Tacoma, homeless refuge, childhood memories, school
memories, poverty, social customs, recreation, sewing, elopement,
transportation, sex education, birth control, marriage, pregnancy, the Great
Depression, anti-nuclear demonstration, equipment description, beginnings of
Hanford nuclear power plant, factory work, Rose's impressions of the German
immigrants around her.
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May 10, 1980 |
| 20/13 |
Pattison, Olga:
interviewed by Hilary Thomson
Note: Interview Summarized. No
Transcript.
Geographic Locations: Meridian
(rural Whatcom County), Bellingham, Blue Canyon, Sumas, Sedro Woolley
Subjects: Teaching, involvement in
local politics, Congregational Church, Seventh Day Adventists (Russelites) and
committee leader of PLF - the Progressive Literary Fraternity-- first federated
women's club with beginnings in 1900 (museum restoration group), memories of
Normal School during WWII, associations with munitions workers at the Bon.
Swedish immigrants arrived in the area in 1888. Mother worked at the California
Hotel on D Street in Bellingham. Early Washington State history, incorporation
of Sehome, Fairhaven, and Whatcom, infant mortality, literacy, environmental
concerns, housework. Blue Canyon, labor issues, 1895 mine explosion, miners,
natural resources, prospectors, Post Lambert gold mine, floods, labor unions,
farming, midwifery, home childbirth, poverty, use of the word "Siwash",
relations with Native Americans, school segregation issues, Catholics,
children's hair styles during the Great Depression, children's gender roles,
women's work, socializing at the Grange Hall, holiday celebrations, religion,
Measles outbreak, hearing problems, travel, steamer trips to Seattle, death of
her husband, sex education, comparisons of life before and after the Great
Depression, knitting for the Red Cross, effects of WWII, Boeing's bomb factory
in Bellingham, intergenerational co-habitation, gardening, experimental botany
for WSU, canning, donations to local Japanese families in the area, who were
deported after WWII
Organizations: 4-H, Parent-Teacher
Organization, Home Demonstration Club, the United Nations Club and the League
of Women Voters
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November 14, 1980 |
| 20/14 |
Paul, Helen:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Transcript available
in-house.
Geographic Locations: Bainbridge;
Vashon Island; Yakima; Saxton; Chemawa, Oregon; Goshen; Chillawack; Carnation;
Seattle; Tulalip
Subjects: School memories of Van
Zandt and Deming, migrant agricultural work: berry and vegetable picking in
Eastern Washington, illnesses, poverty, fishing, food preparation, home-made
clothing, home childbirth, planting and farming, tuberculosis, mortality,
women's club, Pow-wows, longhouses, smokehouses, gatherings of Indian Tribes,
Native songs and traditions, First Nations Canadians, cannery work, senior
center, bone games, card games, Cushman Sanitarium, recreation, fish
preparation, transportation of groceries by canoes, recycled clothing,
knitting, Bureau of Indian Affairs sponsorship of Indian Hospital/field nurse.
Description of Grandmother's log cabin fire, the flood associated with it, and
the grandmother's death of pneumonia. Discussions of boarding schools,
forbidden to speak Skagit-Helquinim Indian language, selling of Native American
land near Lynden, factory work, Native crafts
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July 9, 1980 |
| 20/15 |
Peterson, Helen:
interviewed by Kathy Bruneau
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online.
Geographic Locations: Seattle;
Puyallup
Subjects: Native Americans, Makah
Tribe and language definitions, women together, clubs, women’s work,
pre-arranged marriages, school memories, white/Indian relations, traditional
crafts, housing, construction, church, education, boats, transportation,
fishing, singing, dancing, family worked for Governor Stevens, childhood
memories, storytelling, salmon preparation. Description of different Indian
societies: Lukla, Hum-a-dah (wild men of the woods), the Medicine society.
Helen relays some of the words in the songs. Alaska seal hunting, description
of how one gets an Indian name. Helen was given the 1980 Peace and Friendship
Award for her contributions to historical heritage. Talks about the importance
of passing the history of her culture to her children. Forbidden to speak the
Makah language at school, now teaching it to young children of Kindergarten
age. Life during the Great Depression. Crafts made with readily available
natural fibers. Recreation, horseback riding, cannery work, women leaders,
helping schools, minorities, and travel; discusses importance of making Native
American botanical and other information available to the public.
Organizations: Presbyterian Women’s
Association
|
August 27, 1980 |
| 20/16 |
Schroder, Rueben
and Hazel: interviewed by Ann Ford
Schroder
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online. This oral history was recorded and compiled by Ann Ford Schroder,
the narrators’ daughter-in-law. A bound (complete) transcript is included with
the WWHP forms in the file folder. Detailed biographical information about the
narrators is located in front of transcript. This abstract focuses on Hazel
Schroder’s narrative.
Geographic Locations: Idaho;
Montana; Camano Island; California; Pacso; Oregon; Walla Walla; Okanogan; Sedro
Woolley; Leese, Washington
Subjects: Early memories of
grandmother and her house in Leese, WA. Childhood illness, school memories,
speech impediments, transportation by horse, wildlife, homesteading, dairy
farming, housework, home child birth, marriage, German midwife/nurse delivered
sister, food preparation, fishing, holidays, lengthy description of Santa
Claus’s visits, Seventh Day Adventists, dancing descriptions at social
gatherings, description of musical instruments, entrepreneurs, opened a bunk
house, harvesting fruit, thoughts about pregnancy and childbirth, childrearing,
and logging.
|
1980-1981 |
| 20/17 |
Steiner, Margaret:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Kansas;
Colorado; Arizona; Ozark Mountains; Bellingham; Ferndale; Mt. Vernon; and
Centralia.
Subjects: Nursing, hospital work,
United States public health system, thoughts about marriage, child care,
spinsters, barren women, housework, farming, gardening, and canning.
Organizations: Order of Amarynth,
Women’s church groups.
|
July 9, 1980 |
| 20/18 |
Tiffany, Martha:
interviewed by Barb Smith and Richard Weber
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: Bellingham,
Sumas, Bremerton
Subjects: family history, Native
American reservations, school memories, illness, housing in Bellingham,
memories of grandparents and other relatives, prejudice, Normal school, campus
life, women’s professions, teaching in Sumas, WWII, sexuality, automobiles,
women’s sufferage, voting, transportation, traveling by boat from Bellinham to
Seattle, inflation, the Republican party, church memories, Sunday school, Pearl
Harbor day, black-outs during the war, being single, sibling relationships,
holidays, and food preparation.
|
May 17, 1980 |
| 20/19 |
Torgerson, Ruth:
interviewed by Kristina Sutterlin
Note: Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Location: Fairbanks and
the Aleutian Islands, Alaska; Whitehorse; Yukon; Fairfax; California;
Connecticut; Buckley; Yakutat; Bellingham; Seattle; Tacoma; Puyallup; Kirkland;
Enumclaw
Subjects: family history, German
immigrants, child rearing, life in Alaska, highway construction, dance
performances, potlatch parades, WWI, education history, teaching on Lummi
Island and Lummi Nation Reservation.
|
August 5, 1980 |
| 20/20 |
Trease, Betty:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Transcript available in-house
and online.
Geographic Locations: Mountainview,
Sumas, Ferndale, Tacoma, Washington; Kansas; Texas; Kentucky
Subjects: Family memories, Nooksack
Valley, farming in Everson and Mountainview, Everson social life, homesteading,
cooking, logging, railway transportation between Bellingham Normal School and
Wickersham. Poverty, homelessness, transient workers, fishing, picnics,
childbirth, property, fruit orchards, animal husbandry, cedar stumps, milking
cattle, fruit sales to Ferndale canneries, berry picking, water resources,
wells, threshing, Sumas Mountain, early automobiles, inter-generational life,
food preparation, 1918 flu epidemic, war bonds, school memories, PTA, mother
was township treasurer, office equipment, labor and household chores, literacy,
grange, 1924 election caucus, shingle mills, Ferndale High School, Carnation
plant, school activities, Old Settler’s Picnic, Great Depression, WWII,
husband’s work: shipyards, construction, Columbia Valley Lumber Company, Red
Cross, socialization, community activities, childrearing, reminisces about
apathy and lack of values of youth in 1980, country living, hunting, fishing,
clam digging.
|
July 7, 1980 |
| 20/21 |
Verkist, Wave:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Tape Summarized. Transcript
available in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Ferndale,
Lynden, Bellingham, Marietta, Mt. Baker, Washington.
Subjects: Native American Indian
and white settler relations, household chores and activities, writing
career-Puget Sounder and Bellingham Herald, occupations-secretary, teaching,
marriage, homesteading, wildlife, overwhelming nature, old growth forests,
music, Normal school, farming, animals, clearing land, fruit harvesting,
selling fruit to fish cannery in Ferndale, primitive water and heating
conditions, children’s jobs, threshing, airplanes, WWII, gardening, food
preparation, camping, Lummi-Stomish, Indian woman midwife/doctor,
discrimination against Native Americans, minorities, school subjects, novel
writing, Great Depression, her children’s occupations, rest homes.
Organizations: PTA, Old Settlers
Picnic, Grange
|
July 8, 1980 |
| 20/22 |
Ward, Leona:
interviewed by Kathryn Anderson
Note: Interview Summarized.
Transcript available in-house and online.
Geographic Locations: Germany;
Wales; Kansas; Washington; Idaho; Gooding; Prosser; Yakima; Van Zandt; Birch
Bay; Laurel.
Subjects: rural life in Washington
State, railroad construction, dairy farming, children, homesteading, labor,
farming equipment, tomboys, socializing, education and gender, women’s roles,
hygiene, remedies for emergencies, chores, evening entertainment, sexuality,
sex education, neighborhood and community activities, electricity, birth
control, midwifery, threshers, holidays, infant mortality, singing, “Silver
Bells” singing group, “modern” appliances, food preparation, transportation,
divorce, poverty, childbirth, death
Organizations: Grange, PTA, church
groups, young mother’s club, home demonstration club, donation quilting clubs,
minorities, Japanese internment, WWII outpost.
|
July 15, 1980 |
| 20/23 |
Williams, Bessie:
interviewed by Linda Mariz
Note: Interview Summarized. Transcript available in-house.
Geographic Locations: England;
Wales; Vancouver, BC; Toronto, Ontario; Saskatchewan, Point Roberts, Alaska;
Bellingham, Washington
Subjects: factory work, mental
illness, chores, child labor, domestic work, farming in Canada, cheese making,
Catholics, religion, religious difference, close women friendships, minorities
and cannery working conditions and standards, Japanese, Filipinos, carpentry,
cannery work, childbirth, land ownership, hospital costs, Georgia-Pacific pulp
mill, bootlegging and smuggling alcohol and laborers over Canadian boarder to
Pt. Roberts, WWII, Alaska gold-rush, male dominance over women’s clothing.
|
June 23, 1980 |
Sub-series
3
:
Audio Cassette
Recordings
|
1979-1982 | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 21/1 | Adams, Julia (1 of 2) |
July 1, 1980 |
| 21/2 | Adams, Julia (2 of 2) |
July 1, 1980 |
| 21/3 | Allen, Linda - Project Overview and WWHP Exhibit
Openings (1 of 2) |
August 19, 1983 |
| 21/4 | Allen, Linda - Project Overview and WWHP Exhibit
Openings (2 of 2), |
August 19, 1983 |
| 21/5 | Baijot, Jean |
May 11, 1981 |
| 21/6 | Bloedel, Alice (1 of 2) |
March 20, 1980 |
| 21/7 | Bloedel, Alice (2 of 2) |
March 20, 1980 |
| 21/8 | Booman, Florence (1 of 2) |
1981 |
| 21/9 | Booman, Florence (2 of 2) |
1981 |
| 21/10 | Cable, Margaret (1 of 2) |
August 6, 1980 |
| 21/11 | Cable, Margaret (2 of 2) |
August 6, 1980 |
| 21/12 | Celestine, Aurellia (1 of 3) |
July 23, 1980 |
| 21/13 | Celestine, Aurellia (2 of 3) |
July 23, 1980 |
| 21/14 | Celestine, Aurellia (3 of 3) |
July 23, 1980 |
| 21/15 | Clancy, Alberta |
June 3, 1979 |
| 21/16 | Cochran, Mary Ellen |
September 3, 1980 |
| 21/17 | Colfax, Lynda |
August 27, 1980 |
| 21/18 | Dan, Bertha (1 of 2) |
August 5, 1980 |
| 21/19 | Dan, Bertha (2 of 2) |
August 5, 1980 |
| 21/20 | Dash, Elsie |
September 6, 1980 |
| 21/21 | Elenbaas, Jennie (1 of 2) |
September 16,1980 |
| 21/22 | Elenbaas, Jennie (2 of 2) |
September 16,1980 |
| 22/1 | Frank, Mary |
August 20, 1980 |
| 22/2 | Friend, Verna (1 of 3) |
July 31, 1980 |
| 22/3 | Friend, Verna (2 of 3) |
July 31, 1980 |
| 22/4 | Friend, Verna (2 of 3) |
July 31, 1980 |
| 22/5 | George, Louisa (1 of 2) |
July 18, 1980 ; October 22, 1980 |
| 22/6 | George, Louisa (2 of 2) |
July 18, 1980 ; October 22, 1980 |
| 22/7 | Glass, Eva (1 of 2) |
August 4, 1980 |
| 22/8 | Glass, Eva (2 of 2) |
August 4, 1980 |
| 22/9 | Hammes, Jennifer |
August 11, 1980 |
| 22/10 | Haskins, Delia and Rose Senior |
July 23, 1980 |
| 22/11 | Lawrence, Arta (1 of 2) |
July 18, 1980 |
| 22/12 | Lawrence, Arta (2 of 2) |
July 18, 1980 |
| 22/13 | Mason, Lucile (1 of 3), |
May 24, 1979 |
| 22/14 | Mason, Lucile (2 of 3) |
May 24, 1979 |
| 22/15 | Mason, Lucile (3 of 3) |
May 24, 1979 |
| 22/16 | Morford, Rose (1 of 3) |
May 1980 |
| 22/17 | Morford, Rose (2 of 3) |
May 1980 |
| 22/18 | Morford, Rose (3 of 3) |
May 1980 |
| 22/19 | Pattison, Olga (1 of 3) |
August 27, 1980 |
| 22/20 | Pattison, Olga (2 of 3) |
August 27, 1980 |
| 22/21 | Pattison, Olga (3 of 3) |
August 27, 1980 |
| 23/1 | Paul, Helen (1 of 4) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/2 | Paul, Helen (2 of 4) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/3 | Paul, Helen (3 of 4) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/4 | Paul, Helen (4 of 4) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/5 | Peterson, Helen |
August 27, 1980 |
| 23/6 | Schroder, Hazel |
October 23, 1980 |
| 23/7 | Skagit Valley Panel (1 of 2) |
January 12, 1982 |
| 23/8 | Skagit Valley Panel (2 of 2) |
January 12, 1982 |
| 23/9 | Steiner, Margaret (1 of 2) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/10 | Steiner, Margaret (2 of 2) |
July 9, 1980 |
| 23/11 | Tiffany, Martha (1 of 2) |
May 17, 1980 |
| 23/12 | Tiffany, Martha (2 of 2) |
May 17, 1980 |
| 23/13 | Torgerson, Ruth (1 of 2) |
August 5, 1980 |
| 23/14 | Torgerson, Ruth (2 of 2) |
August 5, 1980 |
| 23/15 | Verkist, Wave Lampman (1 of 2) |
July 8, 1980 |
| 23/16 | Verkist, Wave Lampman (2 of 2) |
July 8, 1980 |
| 23/17 | Ward, Leona A. (1 of 2) |
July 15, 1980 |
| 23/18 | Ward, Leona A. (2 of 2) |
July 15, 1980 |
| 23/19 | Williams, Bessie (1 of 2) |
June 23, 1980 |
| 23/20 | Williams, Bessie (2 of 2) |
June 23, 1980 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Indian women -- North America -- Washington (State) -- Economic conditions.
- Indian women -- North America -- Washington (State) -- Social conditions.
- Newsletters -- Washington (State) -- Whatcom County
- Oral history.
- Women farmers--Washington (State).
- Women immigrants -- Economic conditions.
- Women immigrants -- Social conditions
- Women college graduates -- Washington (State) -- Social Conditions.
- Women in agriculture--Washington (State).
- Women--Employment--Washington (State).
- Women--Washington (State)--Social conditions.
- Women--Washington (State).
Personal Names
- Anderson, Kathryn (creator)
Corporate Names
- Washington Women's Heritage Project--Archives.
- Fairhaven College--Bellingham (Wash)
- Western Washington University-- Bellingham (Wash)
- Women's Network of Whatcom County
Finding aid created by Megan M.
Sibbert
1998
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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