This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Ethel M. (Faulkner) Womack (1901-1995) was born in Nebraska and moved to Spokane, WA, as a young adult. She married C. Ellis Womack (1904-1983) in 1923. She worked as a secretary for Womack and Conboy Plumbing in Spokane, and was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church and of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Plumbers' Union and the Auxiliary of Master Plumbers.
Larry Conboy donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 2017 and 2018 (MS.2017.07).
This collection is open and available for research use.
Ethel M. Womack papers, primarily travel albums, diaries, and collected pamphlets and memorabilia from vacations. Most of the destinations are in the United States, from trips taken between the 1930s and 1970s. Also scrapbooks that are not travel-related, a small amount of family correspondence (Walter Womack World War II letters), and items related to the U.S. Naval Training Station at Farragut, ID (one pamphlet and three group photographs showing Company 1712, Section 2; Company 1712; and Company 38, 8th Battalion, 2nd regiment; all circa 1942-1945).
Preliminary inventory:
Box 1. Travel albums.
Box 2. Travel albums (continued), travel diaries, and scrapbooks.
Box 3. Loose album pages; collected pamphlets and memorabilia; scrapbook.
Oversize folder (in boxed oversize): Items related to U.S. Naval Training Station, Farragut, ID.
Box 4. Files: family history notes; photographs (negatives, slides, prints); baby books; photograph albums, 1930s-1940s and circa 1910s-1920s (2 items).
Box 5. Photograph albums and scrapbooks, circa 1913-1960, circa 1950s, circa 1940s-1950s, 1940-1961, 1940-1960, 1930s-1940s (6 items).
Box 6. Photograph albums, 1920s, 1940s, 1946-1950 (3 items); small travel album, Washington State, 1950s.
Box 7. Photograph album (disbound), circa 1910-1969; loose photographs.