Women's Lives
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Women's Lives
This collection covers lives and activities of important women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Women's Lives includes the lives of women missionaries who traveled the globe between the years 1840 and 1980 as well as the records of American pioneer women, their migration on the Oregon Trail, and their lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Materials related to the women's missionary movement include journals, letters, and manuscripts written by female missionaries about their experiences and the people and customs of the countries in which they resided. They provide accounts of living in East and South Asia, South America, the African Congo, and the United States.
Diaries, memoirs, photographs, and letters document the lives of a selection of American pioneer women who traveled the Oregon Trail or settled or lived in the Pacific Northwest. These materials provide insight into the farm, family, and social life of nineteenth-century women in rural America.
This collection uniquely highlights the activities and lives of a selection of specific women with regards to their political activism, missionary work, or American pioneer activities.
Browse Collection (2640)
- The Idabelle Main Papers, 1895-1978 (119)
- The Eleanore Holliday Llewellyn Papers, Undated (3)
- Rudd, Mrs. Lydia A. [Journal of an Overland Trip from Missouri to Oregon, May 6 to October 27, 1852] (2)
- The Irene Forsythe Hanson Papers, 1921-1980 (320)
- The Helen Merrill Groff-Smith Autobiography, ca. 1940s (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1-16 Manuscript n.d.
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- Parker, Mrs. Inez Eugenia Adams. Early Recollections of Oregon Pioneer Life (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1-2 Early Recollections of Oregon Pioneer Life n.d.
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- The Margaret Moninger Papers, 1915-1942 (20)
- The Letha Evangeline Ward Wakeman Papers, 1908-1974 (537)
- The Elizabeth G. Lewis Dunbar Autobiography, 1947 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1-3 Autobiography n.d.
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- The Arvazena A. Cooper Papers, 1845-1900 (3)
- Diary by Ella Stoughton of a Voyage Around the World, a Residence in New England, and of Life at Home in Vancouver, W.T., May 26, 1881 - September 30, 1886 (19)
- The Aitken Family Papers, 1865-1940 (227)
- The Esther Morse Papers, 1921 – 1977 (418)
- The Gladys Oberlin Papers, 1943-1980 (59)
- Sutton, Sarah. Crossing the Plains, a Narrative of 1854 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Crossing the Plains, a Narrative of 1854 1854
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- Abigail Scott Duniway Papers (346)
- The Monona Cheney Papers, 1918-1944 (42)
- The Virginia M. Mackenzie Papers, 1895-1951 (11)
- Thomas, Julia. Reminiscences of Plains Crossing, 1852, dated 1907 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Reminiscences of Plains Crossing, 1852 (Dated 1907) 1907
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- The Barbara M. Kelman Hayes Biography of John Hayes (7)
- The Eleanor Wilson Papers, 1925-1951 (34)
- The Harriet Nesmith McArthur Diary, 1885-1887 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Diary, 1885-1887 1885-1887
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- Hadley, Amelia. [Journal of Trip from Galesburg, Illinois to Oregon City, Oregon, April 14 to August 23, 1851.] (3)
- D'Arcy, Marianne Hunsaker. Reminiscences of Marianne Hunsaker D'Arcy, 1937-1939 (10)
- Laura, Judy. Caroline Thurman Buffman, Pioneer of 1845 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Caroline Thurman Buffum, Pioneer of 1845 1845
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- Evans, S.D. A Trip from Washoe, Nevada to Douglas County, Oregon, 1863 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 "A Trip from Washoe, Nevada to Douglas County, Oregon in 1863" n.d.
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- Springer, Viola [Journal of a trip from Princeton, Missouri to Harney Valley, Oregon, May 18, 1865 – February 22, 1886] (9)
- Crocker, Mollie Truax. The Pioneer Life of Mollie Truax Crocker, 1862-c. 1890 (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 The Pioneer Life of Mollie Truax Crocker n.d.
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- The Elizabeth J. Goltra Papers, 1853 (5)
- The Elizabeth Curtis Wright Papers, 1919-1973 (6)
- Bannard, Margaret. The Social Lives of Oregon Pioneers, as described in reminiscent letters, 1903-1904 (3)
- Combs, Amelia R. [Report on questions asked of Lane County pioneers relative to location of Skinner cabin, history of Columbia College, and the first Eugene court], July 8, 1906 (1)
- Gordon, Wyona Eliza Surfus. 1883 Trek from Kansas to Oregon, and Memoirs (1963) (1)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Bound Copy of Autobiography, 1958: "The 1883 Wagon Trek from Kansas to Oregon and Memoirs" 1958
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- Eakin, Jane. [Diary of a Trip across the Plains from Illinois to Eugene, Oregon in 1866] (1)
- The Myra Snow Correspondence, 1928-1944 (4)
- The Edith Winifred Simester Letters from China, 1920-1962 (4)
- The Clara Pearl Dyer Letters from Ch'angli, China, 1935-1941 (2)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Letters: 1935-1938 1935-1938 Box 1, Folder2 Letters: 1939-1941, Undated 1939-1941
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- The Suzanne E. Weddell Papers, 1916-1978 (14)
- The Ruth A. Gress Papers, 1939-1966 (44)
- Baker, Della M. Reminiscences of a trip from Portland, Oregon to Dawson, Yukon Territory in 1898. Garden Home, Oregon 1938 (1)
- The Grace Terrell Papers, 1931-1966 (20)
- The Elsie I. Reik Letters from Foochow (Fuzhou) China, 1922-1950 (21)
- The Emily Hatfield Hobart Papers, 1884-1943 (10)
- The Mathilde R. Moses Letters from India, 1916-1949 (36)
- The Lura Smith Collection of Korean Missionary Materials (18)
- The Myrtle A. Smith Papers, 1922-1957 (23)
- The Myra Anna Jaquet Papers, 1913-1946 (17)
- The Lyrel Teagarden Papers, 1921-1951 (63)
- The Edith Shufeldt Papers, 1922-1967 (8)
- The Hazel Chamberlain Papers, 1922-1925 (6)
- The Almira Adeline David Raymond Letters from Oregon, 1840-1880 (2)
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Manuscript Number Document Title Date Box 1, Folder1 Letters: 1840-1852 1840-1852 Box 1, Folder2 Letters: 1863-1880, Undated 1863-1880
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- The Laura Maude Wheeler Papers, 1903-1966 (83)
- The Eliza Anne Hughes Davis Papers, 1895-1920 (12)
- The Mae Baucher Papers, 1926-1931 (18)
- Mallery, Bell. [Diaries, 1866, 1867, 1868] (19)
Collection Facts
- Date Range:
- 1834-1964
- Extent:
- Manuscripts
- Source Institution:
- Various
- Language:
- English