Washington Women's History Consortium

WHC Partner

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

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:
Washington State University:

Washington State University: $15,000.00--Scanning and cataloguing of several collections most notably the Catherine May Congressional Papers 1959-1970. May was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington State. Other documents in the project include women’s athletics in WSU records.

Other WSU Collections

In the future, Washington State University may be contributing objects to the Women's History Consortium from the following collections:

Port Townsend home, ca.1900. Photograph from the Washington State Historical Society.



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