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Women -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

Maude E. Wallace Letter to Sarah Pitts

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-019
Abstract

This letter was written by Maude E. Wallace of Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, Blacksburg, VA, to Sarah Pitts of George Peabody College, Nashville, TN, on 14 August 1929. Ms. Pitts had been hired to work as an Extension agent, but had not yet begun her duties.

Dates: 1929 - 1929

Watercolor Interior Design, 1934-5 (Ms2001-005)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-005_CurrieVirginia_WatercolorInteriorDesign_nd_c

Watercolor interior design, "A Moderne Hotel Suite", n.d. (Ms2001-005)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-005_CurrieVirginia_WatercolorInteriorDesign_nd_a

Watercolor interior design, "New Grade II - Proj I", n.d. (Ms2001-005)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-005_CurrieVirginia_WatercolorInteriorDesign_nd_b

Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings

 File
Identifier: Ms-1995-009
Abstract Rebecca Wood Watkin was born in 1913 in Portland, Oregon. She earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1933, and a B. Arch. from the Architecture School of the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to the west coast, and worked in other architects' offices during the 1930s and 1940s. She earned her California Architectural license in 1944 and opened her own practice in 1951. The collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of...
Dates: 1940-1989, 2011

Lillian C. Weaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-016
Abstract

The collection includes correspondence to and from Lillian C. Weaver. Letters are from family, friends and colleagues. There are also photographs, invitations, play and commencement programs, and a brochure for Ms. Weaver's School for Girls.

Dates: c. 1892-1919, n.d.

Pamela Webb Architectural Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-099
Abstract

The Pamela Webb Architectural Collection contains the professional files, architectural drawings, artwork, and photographs of an architect working primarily in Portland, Oregon, during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1950 - 2009

Hilde Weström Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-061
Abstract

This collection contains the paper of Hilde Weström who was born 1912 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, Germany. She was an architect of Berlin, Germany. The materials in the collection include biographical information, articles, photographs of Weström and her designs, and architectural drawings for nine projects (1954-1970).

Dates: 1952 - 2000

Ute Weström Architectural Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-023
Abstract Ute Westrom was born in 1939 in Berlin, Germany, the oldest of four children of architect Hilde Westrom. In 1968 she earned an architect's diploma from the Technical University of Berlin. She is a practicing architect in Berlin and an active member of the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA.) Her collection includes information about the restoration of the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin and the Sozialkasse des Berliner Baugewerbes in Berlin, both designed by Westrom and her husband...
Dates: 1968 - 1996

Beverly Willis Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-019
Scope and Contents The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection span the years 1954 to 1999 and are comprised primarily of records documenting Willis' work as an architect in San Francisco between 1960 and 1990. The collection documents the application of computers to architectural design and land analysis, the development of CARLA (Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis) in the 1970s, the history of twentieth-century urban planning, particularly in San Francisco; and the contribution of women to...
Dates: 1954 - 1999