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RCW 2734375


Within available resources, the consortium responsibilities include:

  • Compiling a comprehensive index of existing historically relevant materials and making it available in electronic and print form;
  • Identifying topics, historical periods, materials, or activities not well represented in publicly accessible collections and developing strategies for making them publicly available, including topics related to motherhood and the accomplishments of mothers in Washington;
  • Encouraging collection and preservation of materials important to understanding Washington women's history, with special emphasis on the last several decades;
  • Referring potential donors of historical materials to appropriate museums, archives, libraries, and other organizations throughout the state;
  • Developing protocols for protection of donations, loans, leases, and purchases of historically relevant materials;
  • Encouraging exhibit development and sharing among member organizations and others;
  • Encouraging public access and educational institution access to women's history information, materials, and exhibits;
  • Seeking private donations to assist with consortium work;
  • Developing a concept for a grant program;
  • Developing a volunteer program; and
  • Encouraging development of curriculum materials.

[2005 c 391 ยง 5.]
Finding -- Intent -- 2005 c 391: See note following RCW 27.34.360.
International Women's Year Logo
Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.