Finding Aid - Washington Women's Heritage Project

1/2 Publications created by WWHP, 1983
1/3 Aberdeen materials for Final Report, 1983
1/4 Bellevue and Bremerton materials for Final Report, 1983
1/5 Bellingham materials for Final Report, 1983
1/6 Chimacum materials for Final Report, 1983
1/7 Olympia materials for Final Report, 1983
1/8 Pullman materials for Final Report, 1983
1/9 Seattle budget summary, 1983
1/10 Seattle materials for Final Report (1 of 2), 1983
1/11 Seattle materials for Final Report (2 of 2), 1983
1/12 Tacoma materials for Final Report, 1983
1/13 Vancouver materials for Final Report, 1983

Sub-series 3: Correspondence re. Final Report, 1984

1/14 Letter of receipt and acceptance of Final Report by NEH, February 21, 1984

Series II: Grant Administration, 1976-1984

Sub-series 1: Grants, 1978-1984

Box 2
NEH Grants
2/1 Application for American Association for State and Local History, by

                   Linda Mariz (AASLH funded by NEH), 1980
        2/2 Application for NEH Implementation Grant, 1981
        2/3 Budgets- NEH, 1978-1979

        Correspondence
                2/4 Kathryn Anderson- NEH, 1981-1982
                2/5 Sarah Jacobus- NEH, 1981-1982
                2/6 Related to NEH Grant, 1979-1983 (bulk 1979-1981)
                2/7 Grant additions- NEH, 1980
                2/8 Guidelines and application forms- NEH, 1979
                2/9 Guidelines and correspondence- NEH, 1981-1982
        Implementation Grant
                2/10 Working notes- NEH (1 of 2), 1980
                2/11 Working notes – NEH (2 of 2), 1980
                2/12 Grant proposal (Draft)- NEH, 1980
                2/13 Extra copies, 1981

Box 3
NEH Grants, continued
        3/1 Planning grant evaluation- NEH, 1979-1981
        3/2 Resumes- Project members- NEH (1 of 2), undated
        3/3 Resumes-Project members-NEH (2 of 2), undated
        3/4 Rewritten segments NEH, 1981

Other Grants
3/5 Application- Washington Commission for the Humanities (Seattle-

Co-Respondents), September 25, 1981
3/6 Application materials- Washington Commission for the Humanities,

November 1981
3/7 Application- Ella Higginson Project- Washington Commission for the

                  Humanities, 1980
        3/8 Drama grant- Washington Commission for the Humanities, 1980
        3/9 Other grant materials, 1980-1984
        3/10 Other possible grants and endowments- general, 1981

Sub-series 2: Correspondence, 1979-1984

Box 3 continued
3/11 Kathryn Anderson, 1981-1984
3/12 Between project members, 1980-1983
3/13 Bulk mail, 1981
3/14 Endowments, 1979-1980
3/15 General, 1981-1982

Mailing Lists
     3/16 Master Copy, undated
     3/17 “Names” WWHP, undated
     3/18 Other lists, 1980
     3/19 Women’s Clubs, undated

Box 4
4/1 National Women’s Studies Assn., 1981
4/2 Staff Memos- Notebook, January 1980 – April 1982
4/3 Thank-you letters, 1982
4/4 WWHP newsletter, 1980-1981
4/5 Women’s groups, 1981
4/6 Women’s Network of Whatcom County, 1979-1982

Women’s Network Newsletters
     4/7 1979-1980
     4/8 1981
     4/9 1982
     4/10 1983

Sub-series 3: Financial/Legal, 1976-1983

Box 4 continued
Budget
        4/11 Budget, 1980-1981
        4/12 Budget Information, 1980-1981
        4/13 Budget over-runs in Bellingham, undated
        4/14 Completed Cost Sharing Logs, July 1979 – July 1980
        4/15 Invoice Vouchers, undated
        4/16 Payroll Appointment Forms, 1981-1982
        4/17 Petty Cash, 1980-1982
        4/18 Photo Budget Request by Mary Cain, 1981
        4/19 Planning Grant Ledger Sheets, 1980
        4/20 Purchase Requisitions, 1981-1982

Box 5
        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 WWHP Budget Details, 1982

Contracts
        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
        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; 1981
        5/20 Forms- Basic WWHP Forms, undated

Sub-series 4: Personnel, 1980-1982

Box 6
6/1 Linda Allen
6/2 Kathy Bruneau- Native American Coordinator, 1980
6/3 Mary Cain
6/4 Chris Chick
6/5 Cynthia Cornell
6/6 Vivian Dreves
6/7 Employment Forms, undated

Exhibit Consultants
     6/8 Bellingham Area
     6/9 Pullman
     6/10 Seattle
     6/11 Susan Koester
     6/12 Linda Mariz- Regional Planning Coordinator
     6/13 Martha (Kathy) Mathisen
     6/14 Personnel List and Correspondence, 1981-1982
     6/15 Kathleen Watt

Sub-series 5: Organization, Undated

Box 6 continued
6/16 File Plan, undated

Series III: Exhibit, ca. 1890's-1987

Sub-series 1: Planning, 1980-1987

Box 7
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

                   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

Box 8
Slide/Tape Development
        8/1 Contact Xeroxes (1 of 3), undated
        8/2 Contact Xeroxes (2 of 3), undated
        8/3Contact 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

Box 9
Design
        9/1 Design Material
        9/2 Exhibit Brochure, undated
        9/3 Exhibit Designer- David Jensen
        9/4 Exhibit Evaluation and Guestbook, 1981-1982
        9/5 Exhibit Producers (Applications for), 1981
        9/6 Jensen Exhibit System
        9/7 Master Logo
        9/8 Outline of Exhibit

Sub-series 3: Display, ca. 1890's-1981

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.

Box 9 continued
Contact Sheets of Negatives - ca. 1890s-1940s
     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
9/17 Documentation of Photo Sources
9/18 Documentation Re: Photo Selection
9/19 Lists of Materials Missing from WWHP Panels
9/20 Local Panel- Bellingham
9/21 Local Panel- La Conner

Box 10
Negatives (Copy Negatives) - ca. 1890s-1940s
     10/1 Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
     10/2 Unknown Sources
Negatives (35mm) - ca. 1890s-1940s
     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
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
10/13 Photographs of Finished Panels (except Panel #6 and #7)
10/14 Photographs of WWHP Meeting
Photo List with Possible Corresponding Quotes
     10/15 Family/Kin
     10/16 Home to Work
     10/17 Housework
     10/18 Social Reform
     10/19 Women and Children
     10/20 Women Doing What Needed to be Done
     10/21 Women Together
10/22 Photos, negatives and copies from images displayed on Photo Panels (“Panels #2-#12”)
10/23 Photo Project Notebook

Box 11
Photo Index Cards (3x5) - ca. 1890s-1940s
        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

Box 12
        12/1 Whatcom Museum of History & Art
        12/2 Other Repositories
        12/3 Unknown Sources

Box 13
Photo Index Cards (4x6) - ca. 1890s-1940s
        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

Box 14
Photo Xeroxes
        14/1 Other Photos
        14/2 Photos Considered for Exhibit and Slide Show
        14/3 Photo Selection
        14/4 Portraits
        14/5 Women Working
Printed Materials
        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

Box 15
Prints (8x10) – ca. 1890s-1940s
        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 16
16/1 Prints (5x7) - Unknown Sources, undated [ca. 1890s-1940s]
16/2 Prints (4x5) - Unknown Sources, undated [ca. 1890s-1940s]

Slide/Tape Program
        16/3 Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (1 of 3), undated
        16/4 Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (2 of 3), undated
        16/5 Photos Under Consideration – Photocopies (3 of 3), undated
        16/6 Script, October 1982
        16/7 Script and Outline- Various Drafts, 1981

Sub-series 4: Publicity, 1980-1982

Box 17
17/1 Bellingham, 1980
17/2 Brochure Text
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)
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
17/11 Posters, Fliers, Brochures, Etc., 1981-1982
17/12 Press Contacts
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 17 continued
17/16 Project Handbook, 1982
17/17 Project Handbook (extra copies of various sections), 1982

Sub-series 6: Workshops, 1979-1981

Box 17 continued
17/18 Ads for Workshops, ca. 1981
17/19 Exhibit Design, 1980
17/20 Oral History Workshop, 1979-1980
17/21 Oral History Workshop Guidelines

Sub-series 7: Scrapbook, 1981-1987

Box 18
18/1 Coalition for Women of Whatcom County, 1981-1987

Series IV: Oral Histories, 1972-1982

Sub-series 1: Interview Format and Procedure, Undated
Box 19
19/1 Format for Indexing Collection
19/2 Form Letter/Consent Form
19/3 Forms
19/4 Information Re: Transcript/Summary Files
19/5 Interview Consent Forms
19/6 Interviewing Information
19/7 Tape Recording Inventory

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.
Note: Interview summarized.

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.
Note: Interview summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summary

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
Note: Transcript notes missing or not included in file. Two interviews, no date on second interview.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized. Interview forms/notes missing or not included.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summarized. File was restricted until 2001.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized. WWHP Forms Missing.

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
Note: Interview Summarized.

Geographic Locations: Whatcom County, Nooksack, Goshen, Yakima, Seattle, Washington
Subjects: Nooksack Tribe, harvesting, berrypicking, Chilliwack, Skagit, and Nooksack languages, teaching Indian languages, Methodists, Methodist church, Pentecostal church, spirituality, inheritance of songs through spirits, ritual, discovery, the tradition of music, singing, and song, lullabies, children's songs, spiritual songs, farewell songs, chants, and hymns, drumming, ceremonies, ceremonial paint, face-painting, family lineage, community, potluck, smokehouses, cedar headgear, bone games, gambling, alcoholism, and illness
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized; two copies-one with notations.

Date: undated
Subjects: 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.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized. WWHP forms missing or not included.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: WWHP forms missing or not included.

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, 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.
Note: Interview Summarized. Materials were restricted until 1993. Tapes have been destroyed at the request of the narrator. In the case of publication, names mentioned in the interview be changed to pseudonymns.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized. WWHP forms missing or not included in folder.

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.
Transcript: Yes. Available in-house and online. Click here to access transcript. (Includes one transcript from each interview, and one edited transcript of 1979 May 10 interview.)

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.
Transcript: Yes. Available in-house and online. Click here to access 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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Note: Interview Summarized.

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
Transcript: Yes. Available in-house and online. Click here to access transcript.

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.
Note: This oral history was recorded and compiled by Ann Ford Schroder, the narrators’ daughter-in-law.

Transcript: Yes. Available in-house and online. Click here to access transcript. (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: 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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

Date: 1980 August 5
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.

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.
Note: Interview Summary Included.

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
Note: Tape Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

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.
Note: Interview Summarized.

Box 21
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), September 6, 1980
21/11 Cable, Margaret (2 of 2), September 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

Box 22
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 (3 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

Box 23
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