Women in Washington History

The WHC is working to build a biographical resource of women from Washington State whose contributions have left a mark on their communities and the state.

In-depth Portraits

• May Arkwright Hutton -- The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture has contributed the May Arkwright Hutton Collection to the WHC Collections. Currently there are approximately 200 letters in this collection. In the near future, hundreds of newspaper articles kept in Hutton's scrapbooks will be added to the collection.
• Emma Smith DeVoe -- The Washington State Library has contributed the Emma Smith DeVoe Papers to the WHC Collection. This is an extensive collection that we have only begun to process. We will complete the collection in the very near future.
• Anna Louise Strong -- Witness to the Revolution: A documentary by Stourwater Productions. For PC (WMV) | For MAC (SWF)
  Another brief documentary on Anna Louise Strong. For PC (WMV) | For MAC (SWF)
• Thea Foss -- Finding Thea: A sample (mov) from the documentary film by Nancy Bourne Haley & Lucy Ostrander. For more information on the film including purchasing DVD's visit the website Finding Thea.
• Julia Butler Hansen
• Peggy Maxie

Visual Galleries

Thw WHC is providing a gallery of images as an Visual way to exploring our biographies database. These galleries will be organized around WHC Themes. The gallery below is from the Womans Suffrage theme.