Women's lives
Subtitle: American women missionaries and pioneers collection : filmed from the holdings of the manuscript collections documenting women in society, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Conn
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Women missionaries; Correspondence; Diaries; Biography; Women in missionary work; Women pioneers; Frontier and pioneer life; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Description and travel
Notes: Collection includes material documenting American women missionaries in Asia, South America, and the U.S., 1840-1980, and American women pioneers in Oregon, 1845-1920. Material concerning women missionaires includes correspondence and other writings documenting the lives and history of women missionaries, as well as host country cultures at particular times. Several missionaries turned their impressions into manuscripts, either fictionalized or biographical. Material concerning women pioneers includes diaries and reminiscences describing overland journes to Oregon by pioneer families and journals and diaries describing the daily concerns of women living in towns and on farms and ranches in Oregon.

Accompanied by a printed reel guide.

MicRR guide no: 768.