20th Century Materials Initiative

The Washington Women’s History Consortium is launching an initiative to encourage the donation of modern women’s history materials to professional archives across the state.

The legislative mandate of the Consortium encourages the collection and preservation of materials important to understanding Washington women's history, with special emphasis on the last several decades.

To help implement this mandate, the Consortium is encouraging the donation of materials related to the women’s rights movement of the late 20th century and the expanding role of women in modern society, which are currently kept in private collections, to the Consortium member archives. These donations will create important research collections for this era. As part of a 2006 legislative appropriation, funds will be allocated to the members to process the materials and make them available online in 2007.

Members of the Women's History Consortium members include the Washington State Historical Society, Washington State Library, Washington State Archives, Western Washington University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, Washington State University and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane.

Items such as flyers, organization minutes, buttons, bumper stickers, flags, letters, reminiscences, oral histories, forms, agendas and other meeting materials, manuals, meeting announcements, clippings and fundraising project records are important materials to help researchers understand this important period in our state’s history.

For more information about the Consortium, email Coordinator Shanna Stevenson or contact her by phone at 360-586-0171.

Form for 20th Century Materials Initiative