Upcoming Workshops Related to Women's History in Washington State

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Interpreting and Preserving the Building Blocks of Women’s History

Wednesday February 14, 2007
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
State Capital Museum and Outreach Center
211 21st Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98501

This workshop will focus on using non-traditional materials as women’s history resources. Such items such as cookbooks, meeting minutes, scrapbooks, diaries, handwork, letters, clothing and textiles in public and private collections are important in researching and illuminating women’s everyday and public lives.

Presenter and Women’s History Consortium Coordinator, Shanna Stevenson, will use examples of these materials to illustrate the ways in which they reveal important aspects of women’s changing roles, contributions and achievements in Washington history and how they can be used for researching, preserving and documenting women’s history.

Ms. Stevenson will be joined by professional staff from the Washington State Historical Society to provide expert advice about the preservation of these materials in home and institutional environments. Providing for the preservation of scrapbooks, bound volumes, textiles and other items presents special challenges.

This workshop is aimed at helping the attendees to look at these resources in different ways, revealing their importance in understanding women’s roles in our collective past, as well as assisting those who are stewards of these materials in ensuring their preservation.