Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and
Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
archives@lclark.edu
503-768-7254
OLPb019LAN
Harvey,
Mary Manche Langley, 1918-
Manche Langley Harvey
Collection
2004-2005
1 cubic foot; two
boxes
Harvey was a pacifist and an actress who
lived at Civilian Public Service Camp 56, at Waldport, Oregon during World War
II. This collection includes original recordings and a transcript of an oral
history interview about Harvey's life and experiences in CPS, as well
supporting materials including photographs and an MA thesis written by the
interviewer.
Special Collections
English
Biographical Note
Manche Langly Harvey was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 19,
1918. She lived in the Portland area until her young adult years, when she
became a pacifist, and eventually joined the Fine Arts Civilian Public Service
Camp at Waldport, Oregon in 1943. At Waldport, Manche became involved with the
theater and printing. After the war she and her husband Bob Harvey moved to San
Francisco, where Manche worked in the emerging theater scene with the
Interplayers and the Playhouse. Today Manche lives in the San Francisco
area.
This collection includes master copies and duplicates of original
cassette oral history recordings. The collection also includes transcriptions,
correspondence, photographs, and historical materials relating to Manche
Langley Harvey.
This collection is arranged in a single series with: Box 1 including
oral history recordings; and Box 2 including oral history transcriptions and
supporting materials.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
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.
The Manche Harvey Langley Collection, OLPb019LAN, Lewis & Clark
College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland,
Oregon.
Given to Lewis & Clark College by Eliza Elkins Jones in January of
2007.
Processed in 2007.
For more information about Manche Langley Harvey and the World War II
Civilian Public Service Camps see:
Eliza Jones and Katrine Barber. "The Utmost Human Consequence:
Art and Peace on the Oregon Coast, 1942-1946."
Oregon Historical Quarterly. 107
(Winter 2006)
go to: http://www.lclark.edu/~archives/specialcollections/ to see
other collections related to Civilian Public Service camps.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Harvey,
Mary Manche Langley, 1918-
Jones,
Eliza Elkins
Conscientious objectors --
United States -- Personal narratives
Civilian Public
Service
Oral
Histories
Women
Fine
Arts
Civic
Activism
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
1
Box 1: Manche Langley Harvey oral
history recordings by Eliza Jones
May 14-September 4, 2004
1/1
Tape 1
May 14, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/2
Tape 2
May 14, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/3
Tape 3
May 26, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/4
Tape 4
June 5, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/5
Tape 5
June 5, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/6
Tape 6
June 25, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/7
Tape 7
June 25, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/8
Tape 8
June 25, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/9
Tape 9
July 9, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/10
Tape 10
July 9, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/11
Tape 11
July 9, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/12
Tape 12
July 9, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/13
Tape 13
July 23, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/14
Tape 14
July 23, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/15
Tape 15
July 23, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/16
Tape 16
September 4, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/17
Tape 17
September 4, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
1/18
Tape 18
September 4, 2004
1 master cassette, 2
copies
2
Box 2: Manche Langley Harvey oral
history supporting materials
2004-2005
2/1
Legal release & consent
forms
May
2004
2/2
Correspondence, EJ to
MLH
May-July, 2004
2/3
Interview transcription, Tape
1
May 14, 2004
2/4
Interview transcription, Tape
2
May 14, 2004
2/5
Interview transcription, Tape
3
May 26, 2004
2/6
Interview transcription, Tape
4
June 5, 2004
2/7
Interview transcription, Tape
5
June 5, 2004
2/8
Interview transcription, Tape
6
June 25, 2004
2/9
Interview transcription, Tape
7
July 25, 2004
2/10
Interview transcription, Tape
8
June 25, 2004
2/11
Interview transcription, Tape
9
July 9, 2004
2/12
Interview transcription, Tape
10
July 9, 2004
2/13
Interview transcription, Tape
11
July 9, 2004
2/14
Interview transcription, Tape
12
July 9, 2004
2/15
Interview transcription, Tape
13
July 23, 2004
2/16
Interview transcription, Tape
14
July 23, 2004
2/17
Interview transcription, Tape
15
July 23, 2004
2/18
Interview transcription, Tape
16
September 4, 2004
2/19
Interview transcription, Tape
17
September 4, 2004
2/20
Interview transcription, Tape
18
September 4, 2004
2/21
Manche Irene Langley
undated
Collected information on Manche Irene Langley, MLH’s aunt,
includes images, published articles, news clippings, obituary, and “Queen’s
Bench” materials
2/22
MA thesis, “‘All done as a real
pacifist:’ Manche Langley's recollections of peace and art in America's
mid-twentieth century Far West” by Eliza Jones
2005
Based on oral history interviews
2/23
MLH family
photographs
undated
forty images