WHC Partner

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Spokane, Washington

Grant awards for processing women's history materials:

Through grant allocations WHC Partners are processing collections for addition to the WHC website. The grant guidelines specified that existing collections would be processed to create finding aids and/or digitized images as web ready elements for the Women's History Consortium website. The applications specified that the projects were to be related to at least one of five themes related to the WHC legislative mandate: Women’s Suffrage in Washington; Women’s Rights Movement of the Late 20th Century; Elected Washington Women; Women's Clubs and Organizations; and Expanding Participation of Women in Modern Society.

Grant allocation:
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture:
$15,000.00 -- Scanning of approximately 1300 items in the May Arkwright Hutton Collection. May Arkwright Hutton led the 1909-10 suffrage campaign in Eastern Washington.

Collections

The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture will be contributing objects to the Women's History Consortium from the following collections:

• Mary W. Avery Research Files
  Historian and archivist, of Washington. Research files in regional and local history, including correspondence, clippings, copies of secondary sources, pamphlets, ephemeral items, ms. drafts for Avery's book Washington: The Evergreen State (1965), book reviews, bibliographical material, copies of her articles, typescripts of history lectures delivered by her at Washington State University, where she was archivist, and maps, photos, and graphic materials gathered for inclusion in her publications.
• Eleanor B. Day Boyce Papers
  Diaries (1901, 1907-1950) chiefly recording personal income, but containing occasional brief personal entries; and correspondence mainly with her brothers, Harry L. and Jerome Day, regarding mining and other financial matters.
• Clifford M. Drury Papers
  Correspondence, diaries, journals, records, research notes, clippings, photos, mss. of writings, and other papers, relating to Drury's research on Congregational and Presbyterian missions established by the Oregon Mission of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work with Pacific Northwest Indians, including Cayuse, Nez Percé, and Spokane Indians, and concerning the following missionaries: Marcus Whitman, Narcissa (Prentiss) Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza (Hart) Spalding, Elkanah Walker, Mary (Richardson) Walker, Cushing Eells, Myra (Fairbanks) Eells, Asa Bowen Smith, Sarah Gilbert (White) Smith, William Henry Gray, Mary Augusta (Dix) Gray, Henry Thomas Cowley, and Lucy Abigail (Peet) Cowley; and personal correspondence (1938-1983). Subjects include the Whitman Massacre (1847) and Whitman Mission National Historic Site. Bulk of material relates to research for Drury's First White Women over the Rockies: Diaries, Letters of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission, 1836 and 1838 (published 1963, 1966).
• Marion E. Hay Papers
  Businessman, lieutenant governor, and governor of Washington State; d. 1933. Collection includes personal and business correspondence during his term as governor, and private business papers.
• Reba J. Hurn Diaries
  Diaries relating to Hurn's daily activities, her teaching career in Spokane, studies at University of Heidelberg, and work with Nathan Straus, New York City philanthropist, in milk depots he established for the distribution of pasteurized milk for prevention of disease among babies and children in 1908.
• May Arkwright Hutton Collection
  Boardinghouse operator in Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho; author; suffragette; and resident of Spokane, Washington. Personal letters relating to suffrage activities, social and political events in Spokane, and family matters; manuscripts for speeches on equal rights; photograph; and scrapbooks.
• Agnes M. Kehoe Papers
  Businesswoman, state legislator, and civic leader, of Hillyard, Wash. Correspondence (1937-1959) and records of community organizations in which Kehoe was involved, including Hillyard Commercial Club (1953-1959), Hillyard Community Club (1937-1941), and Spokane Visiting Nurses Association (1942-1958), which she helped organize in 1942. Includes material relating to Kehoe Hardware Company, Spokane, Wash., owned by Kehoe and her husband, Thomas E. Kehoe.
• Anna M. Stratton Diaries
  Diaries relating to Stratton's daily activities, the weather, family members, and her move from Michigan through Saint Paul, Minns., to Spokane, Wash., via the Northern Pacific Railroad (1889). Persons represented include her son, Rev. Howard W. Stratton, and son-in-law, J.J. Browne (who accompanied her for part of the trip).
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union, East Washington Chapter Papers
  Correspondence, scrapbooks, minute books, convention programs, and ephemera from two Spokane County unions, Margaret B. Platt Union and Frances E. Willard Union, and Frances E. Willard Union, Yakima, Wash. Includes minute book (1931-1938) of Margaret B. Platt Union and material relating to alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse, issued by the national headquarters.