WHC Partner

Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, 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:
Washington State Historical Society:
$25,000.00--Processing collections and creating finding aids for several collections related to women involved in the late 20th century women's movement and political life in Washington including the papers of Laurie Jinkins, feminist and human rights activist and others.

As the organizing institution and with the concurrence of the Advisory Board, the WSHS did not compete for grants, but received a portion of the funds.

Collections

The Washington State Historical Society's contribution to the WHC's Women's History Collection will include objects from the following collections:

• Laurie Jinkins, Feminist, human rights activist, 1980s-present
• Lorraine Wojahn, State Senator, late 1980s-2004
• Darlene Fairley, state Senator, 1994-2000
• Jan Secor, Feminist activist, 1970s-2000
• Ann O'Donnell, State Representative, 1960s
• Mona Mendoza, Feminist, 1980s
• Dawn Lucien, Activist, 1980s-1990s
• Suzanne Cofer, Political Activist, 1980s
• Rose Lyon, Homemaker, 1900-1930
• Grau, AAUW, 1930-1950
• Byrne, Clubs, 1940-1950
• Stapleton, Librarian, 1913-1984
• Keyes, WWI, Red Cross
• Mrs. Percy Smith, Club woman, 1915-1945