Washington Women's History Consortium
Dr. Chris Friday, Director, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies; Professor of History, Bellingham

WHC Advisory Board Member

Dr. Chris Friday

Director, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies; Professor of History, Bellingham

Dr. Friday has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Western Washington University and Director, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University.

Publications

  • Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist. Seattle: University of Washington Press (2003)
  • Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1994)
  • Introduction," Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. University of Washington Press, (2003)
  • Introduction," To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing. University of Washington Press, (1999)

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.