WHC Partner

University of Washington
Seattle, 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.

Collections

Many of the University of Washington's digital collections include women’s images and information about women. Collections that particularly focus on women include:

• Fashion Plate Collection
• Prior and Norris Troupe photographs
• Social Issues photographs
• Vietnam War Era Ephemera collection
• Washington State Pioneer Life Database

Selected finding aids about important women that have been encoded and put up include:

• Guide to the Nettie J. Asberry Papers
• Guide to the Nettie J. Asberry Photograph Collection
• Katharine Bullitt Papers
• Vi Hilbert Papers
• Bernice F. Stern Papers

Other Resources:

• Women's Studies Rersearch Databases