Abstract

Papers and scrapbooks relating to her work in humanities and music at Ricks College, her role as mother and wife, and position as 1978 Idaho Mother of the Year. Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal journals (1976-1979), class syllabi, grant applications, and papers written for publication and presentation. Includes information on the 1976 Teton Dam disaster.

Scope and Contents

Materials include "The Land of Shinehah," a poem about Kirtland, Ohio, published by Orson F. Whitney. There is also a caption of a photograph about Orson F. Whitney. Date of production not identified.

Scope and Contents

Five pages of material, including an outline of courses titled Church Activities Courses, Beginning with Spring Quarter, March 8, 1920; one page titled Lectures on Maiden, Wife and Mother From an outline dealing with motherhood, giving items IV and V of the outline; two pages, apparently related, dealing with lessons on motherhood, one titled Sex in Life, and the other Pre-existence and Fore-ordination of Mothers" (photo typescripts).

Content Description

Contains one small red Lady's Almanac in which Richards recorded brief entries about her daily life in Malden, Illinois in 1856. Includes entries about her daughter Carrie's health issues and eventual death. Almanac contains advertisements, poems, astronomical and Zodiac signs, information about female medical schools, stories, and information on women's domestic issues. Dated 1856.

Scope and Contents Contains papers relating to the family of Mary Stovall Richards, her mother, Victoria Goulding Stovall and her grandmother, Mary Luella Merza Young Goulding. Includes books on mothering and cooking as well as French children’s booklets used in raising the family. Also includes correspondence with other family members and family friends, and biographical information variously compiled by the three women for genealogical purposes. Majority of the items are from the family’s time in Chicago,...

Scope and Contents

Contains the personal diaries of Ruth Blanche Hatch Woodland, as well as other booklets, and letters from the Booklore Club Ruth belonged to. Diary entries and other material describes the basic day to day activities of Ruth between 1904 and 1982.

Scope and Contents

Contains a scrapbook of the Young Mothers Council which covers the years 1965-1973. It includes programs, meeting minutes, photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings about the events of the club during those years. The second box in the collection contains loose programs, meeting minutes, letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings dealing with the life of the council.