WAUGearhartLucy0558.xml Guide to the Lucy Gearhart Papers approximately 1834-1961 Gearhart (Lucy) Papers Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2006 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-05-11. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Lucy Gearhart papers Gearhart, Lucy 0558 2.87 cubic feet 7 boxes and 1 package approximately 1834-1961 Papers of a female temperance advocate from Tacoma, Washington Collection materials are in English.

Lucy Gearhart (Mrs. John W.) was a Tacoma, Washington, civic leader involved with the temperance and woman suffrage movements. During the 1950s she took a keen interest in writing about the temperance movement in the West. In particular, Mrs. Gearheart researched and wrote extensively on George Cotterill's (1865-1958) temperance activities and his lengthy career with the International Order of Good Templars. Gearhart was both a friend and admirer of Cotterill, a Seattle Democratic politician and advocate of temperance and prohibition. As an expression of her interest, Gearhart assembled a collection of temperance materials, which included books, original documents, ephemera, songbooks, medals, and even commemorative china. Gearhart also gathered bibliographies on the subject and took extensive notes from published and unpublished sources. She hoped to publish a history, either in the form of articles or a book, but apparently never accomplished this. In 1965 and 1966, she donated her temperance collection and her research notes to the University of Washington Libraries so that other researchers could use them.

The Lucy Gearhart papers are arranged in two series:

Temperance materials, approximately 1834-1961 Personal papers, approximately 1884-1960

The Lucy Gearhart papers document Gearhart's interest in the temperance movement. The Temperance materials series contains original documents, ephemera, artifacts, and other materials that comprised part of Gearhart's temperance collection. The Personal papers series contains Gearhart's personal correspondence, primarily with dealers, her writings, notes, bibliographies, and other research materials. Some files contain transcriptions of original documents and verbatim copies from books in Gearhart's own hand.

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Gift of Lucy Gearhart, July 28, 1965, and June 8, 1966.

Processing completed in 1993.

Portions of Lucy Gearhart's collection were relocated to other divisions of the University of Washington Libraries. Fifty books went to the Libraries' main collection. Songbooks, temperance cards, and medals were relocated to the Special Collections Division's collections of published materials.

 Gearhart, Lucy--Archives Cotterill, George F. (George Fletcher), 1865- Woman's Christian Temperance Union Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Western Washington International Order of Good Templars Washington (State) Tacoma Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Women civic leaders--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Archives Temperance--West (U.S.) Temperance--United States--Societies, etc Women--Suffrage--United States Women--Suffrage--Washington (State) Civic Activism Women Correspondence Ephemera writings notes bibliographies Reports research (document genres) card files Photographs Sheet music Medals Ceramic tableware Artifacts Temperance materials approximately 1834-1961 Correspondence Dolge (Alfred) and Son, pianoforte materials, Dolgeville, New York 1894 0558-001 Box 1 1 Good Templars, International Order of, Grand Lodge of England 1910 0558-001 Box 1 1 Gough, John B. 1884 0558-001 Box 1 1 Leonard, Mary 1846 0558-001 Box 1 1 Moulton, H. P. 1866 0558-001 Box 1 1 National Women's Suffrage Association 1888 0558-001 Box 1 1 Stone, Lucinda H. 1890 0558-001 Box 1 1 Women's Christian Temperance Union (National) Greenwood, Elizabeth 1892 0558-001 Box 1 1 Livingston, Deborah 1913 0558-001 Box 1 1 Women's Christian Temperance Union (World) Sanderson, Mary E. 1907 0558-001 Box 1 2 Slack, Agnes E. 1906 0558-001 Box 1 2 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, Board of Women Managers, Frances A. Marlette 1893 0558-001 Box 1 2 Postcard, unidentified 1908 0558-001 Box 1 2 Publications Miscellaneous 1890, 1903 0558-001 Box 1 3 Christian Herald Almanac 1913, 1914 0558-001 Box 1 4 The Flying Squadron of America undated 0558-001 Box 1 5 A Loud Call, to the Citizens of this Nation... 1842 0558-001 Box 1 6 Mad Dogs and the Liquor Traffic (tract) by W. Jennings Demorest 1886 0558-001 Box 1 6 Pierce County Women's Christian Temperance Union directory and yearbook 1923 0558-001 Box 1 6 Purpose and Policy of Prohibition in All Its Phases undated 0558-001 Box 1 7 Journal of the Proceedings of the Sons of Temperance of North America 1853 0558-001 Box 1 7 Temperance Almanac 1834 0558-001 Box 1 8 Reports American Temperance Society report 1835 0558-001 Box 1 9 "Temperance Report" 1852 0558-001 Box 1 9 U.S. War Department report: "A Report on a Plan for Transporting Wounded Soldiers by Railway in Time of War" 1875 0558-001 Box 1 9 "Report of Delegates from the General Aid Society for the Army and the Agencies of the U.S. Sanitary Commission" 1862 0558-001 Box 1 9 News releases undated 0558-001 Box 1 10 Subject files Cotterill, George undated 0558-001 Box 1 11 Evangelism and temperance (E. Tennyson Smith and J.A. Jewel) 1905-1914, 1954-1959, undated 0558-001 Box 1 12 Suffrage 1909, 1915, 1961, undated 0558-001 Box 1 13 White Shield Home, Tacoma undated 0558-001 Box 1 14 Diploma 1864 0558-001 Box 1 15 Autograph cards undated 0558-001 Box 1 16 Commemorative memorabilia 1917, 1925, undated 0558-001 Box 6

WCTU pins and ribbons (2 of each)

 Photographs 1924, 1930 0558-001 Box 1 18 Cards undated 0558-001 Box 1 19 Sheet music 1866, undated 0558-001 Item 8 Ceramic tableware undated 0558-001 Box 7

Contains a cup, saucer, ornamental dish, and six plates.

 Temperance medals undated 4 items 0558-001 Box 3 Ephemera undated 0558-001 Box 2 1-3 Clippings 1874-1916 0558-001 Box 2 4-9 Personal papers approximately 1884-1960 Incoming letters from dealers 1937-1959 0558-001 Box 2 10 Incoming letters - miscellaneous 1955-1960 0558-001 Box 2 11 Speeches and writings "The Beginning of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Western Washington" undated 0558-001 Box 2 12 Untitled undated 0558-001 Box 2 13 Research files Biographies undated 0558-001 Box 2 14 Biographies, Hill and others undated 0558-001 Box 2 15 Blue Ribbon League, Olympia 1879 0558-001 Box 2 16 Cedar River undated 0558-001 Box 3 1 Cotterill, George undated 0558-001 Box 3 2 Early temperance history undated 0558-001 Box 3 3 Gay Nineties undated 0558-001 Box 3 4 How the West Was Won undated 0558-001 Box 3 5 Lee, Jason and Rose undated 0558-001 Box 3 6 Loyal Temperance Legion undated 0558-001 Box 3 7 Minutes of Western Washington Women's Christian Temperance Union 1884-1893 0558-001 Box 3 8 Pioneer schools undated 0558-001 Box 3 9 Powell, L. J. undated 0558-001 Box 3 10 Railroad - Tacoma undated 0558-001 Box 3 11 Social studies undated 0558-001 Box 3 12 Temperance in early Lima, Ohio undated 0558-001 Box 3 13 Willard, Frances undated 0558-001 Box 3 14 Women's work - anti-slavery, temperance, sufferage undated 0558-001 Box 3 15 World's Temperance Center Congress, Durkee undated 0558-001 Box 3 16 World's Temperance Congress: Temperance in All Nations 1893 0558-001 Box 3 17 Research notes undated 0558-001 Box 4 1 Notebooks undated 0558-001 Box 4 2-3 George Cotterill and temperance undated 0558-001 Box 4 4-7 Temperance ephemera undated 0558-001 Box 4 8-9 Publications 1951, 1958, undated 0558-001 Box 4 10-11 Bibliographies undated 0558-001 Box 4 12 Ephemera undated 0558-001 Box 4 13 Miscellany undated 0558-001 Box 4 14 Clippings undated 0558-001 Box 5 1-4 Notecards undated 0558-001 Box 6

Originally organized with rubber bands dividing the cards into groups. The bands have been removed, and the original divisions marked with blue paper.