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The Jean M. Ward Collection, 1870-2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ward, Jean M.
Title
The Jean M. Ward Collection
Dates
1870-2015 (inclusive)
Quantity
13 box, (20 cubic feet)
Collection Number
OLPb160WAR
Summary
Collected research material from Jean M. Ward, Lewis & Clark College professor emerita of Communication, and founder of the Gender Studies program. The collection includes material relating to her work on Abigail Scott Duniway and Women in the Northwest.
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Jean M. Ward came to Lewis & Clark College in 1964 to coach speech and debate, and retired in 2006 as professor emerita of Communication, and founder of the Gender Studies program which she directed for 16 years. Ward co-authored two books on women: "Yours for Liberty", a compilation of selections from the Abigale Scott Duniway newspaper "The New Northwest"; and "Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925".

Abigail Scott Duniway was born in Illinois in 1836. In 1852, she crossed the country to Oregon in a wagon train, which resulted in the loss of her mother and a baby brother. In 1853 she married Benjamin Duniway, and they had six children. In 1859 Abigail Scott Duniway wrote the first novel to be commercially published in Oregon, which was entitled Captain Gray’s Company, or Crossing the Plains and Living in Oregon. After they lost their farm in Yamhill County and Benjamin Duniway was permanently injured in an accident, Abigail Scott Duniway supported the family as a teacher and milliner. In 1871, the Duniway family moved to Portland, Oregon where Abigail Scott Duniway began publishing her suffrage newspaper, The New Northwest, which ran until 1887. During this time she campaigned for women’s suffrage throughout the northwest. In 1912, Oregon allowed women to vote, and Abigail Scott Duniway was the first woman in the state registered to vote. She died three years later, in 1915.

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Content Description

Series 1 contains general biographical information on Abigail Scott Duniway, as well as correspondence between Jean Ward and others about Abigail Scott Duniway, and transcriptions of Duniway’s speeches.

Series 2 contains copies of Abigail Scott Duniway’s correspondence. Most of the letters are written to her son, Clyde Duniway, between 1890 and 1915, as well as some miscellaneous suffrage-related correspondence.

Series 3 contains Jean Ward’s notes on Abigail Scott Duniway’s fiction. In addition to her commercially published books, Duniway wrote 18 novels to be were serialized in The New Northwest, and three in The Pacific Empire. This box also contains Duniway’s overland diary, and the manuscript of her novel Margaret Rudson.

Series 4 contains alphabetized files on topics pertaining to Jean Ward’s research, including minorities in the Pacific Northwest, women’s rights, and Oregon history.

Series 5 contains alphabetized files on individuals. Many of these files consist of research notes for Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925. Box 7 also contains research papers written by Jean Ward.

Series 6 contains materials pertaining to the Wilderness Women Project of 1978, of which Jean Ward was a part. In addition, it contains several drafts of a paper by Jean Ward on the relationship between Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony. This box also includes a draft of “Yours for Liberty.”

Series 7 contains transcriptions of letters and articles from The New Northwest, which were used or considered for use in “Yours for Liberty.”

Series 8, boxes 10 and 11 contain photographs. Box 10 contains copied photographs of Abigail Scott Duniway and her family. It also contains research images of other women used in Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925. Box 11 contains images of historically significant women, not limited to the Pacific Northwest or the 19th century.

Series 9, boxes 12 and 13 contain a full printed set of the New Northwest microfilm collection.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The Jean M. Ward Collection (OLPb160WAR), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in series, grouped by genre.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition Information

Donated by Jean M. Ward in 2015.

Processing Note

Processed in 2015.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • History
  • Northwest, Pacific
  • Oregon
  • Oregon National Historic Trail
  • Suffrage
  • Suffragists--Oregon
  • Women

Personal Names

  • Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906
  • Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915
  • Ward, Jean M.

Zachariah Selley
2015

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