Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of genealogical information collected by Dr. Grace Purse. The collection includes correspondence and documents about the Guile and Wishard families. Most notable in the collection is a diary by Molly Guile that describes her family's overland journey from Missouri to Montana in 1869.
Two maps of the Portland, Oregon area, one dated 1908, were removed to the map library. In addition, three small photographs of an unidentified woman were removed to the Photograph Collection of Special Collections. One broadside advertises a concert with Miss Grace Guile, soprano.
Dates
- 1844-1942
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use note
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical/Historical note
Grace Guile Purse was a physician in Washington, D.C. early in the twentieth century. In 1920 she began research on her family's genealogy. She pursued this genealogical information in an effort to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. This collection consists of genealogical information collected by Dr. Grace Purse. The collection includes correspondence and documents about the Guile and Wishard families. Most notable in the collection is a diary by Molly Guile that describes her family's overland journey from Missouri to Montana in 1869.
Extent
0.51 linear feet (2 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Grace Guile Purse was a physician in Washington, D.C. early in the twentieth century. In 1920 Purse pursued genealogical research in an effort to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Arrangement note
Collection is organized into the following series: Genealogical papersPhotographs
Separated Materials note
Two maps of the Portland, Oregon area, one dated 1908, were removed to the Map Library.
General Physical Description note
2 containers
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Diaries Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Genealogies (histories) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Giles family
- Overland Journeys to the Northwestern United States Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Overland journals Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- Overland journeys to the Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Physicians -- Washington (D.C.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Purse, Grace Guile
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Wishard family
- Title
- Guide to the Grace Guile Purse Papers
- Status
- Revise Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Scott Martell and Vida Germano
- Date
- ©2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
