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Children's issues were deemed an appropriate arena for women: Washington Women started voting in school elections in 1890. The Rainier...

Women were not given the vote; they earned it.

This exhibit was created in 2009 in conjunction with the Washington State History Society's Exhibit, "Women's Votes, Women's Voices"....

When Marion Southard married Phillip Weiss in 1926, she gave up her career as a social worker in order to raise her children. Back then,...

A hundred years ago, women's roles in the public sphere often grew out of their experience as wives and mothers at home: women worked as...

"We decided to make a quilt. It’s cool. It shows all kind of things that happened in history in this neighborhood. We learned to work...

In the spring of 2005, a group of fourth and fifth graders at Orca @ Columbia School researched the history of the stream that used to...

Urban Archaeology in the Rainier Valley An unusual crowd filled Courtland Place for five days in October 2002. This tiny street that runs...