Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt to the Soviet Union

Title

Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt to the Soviet Union

Description

Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt sewn in Forest Grove, Oregon to a group of politicians in the Soviet Union. PUA_MS147_122 offers a description of the quilt: "This quilt was stitched by the women of the Forest Grove Stitchery Group. In the fall of 1983, this group began planning an Oregon peace quilt that would demonstrate to the women of the Soviet Union, especially, that the women of the U.S.A. stood for friendship and peace between our two countries." This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.

Identifier

PUA_MS147_116

Date Created

1987

Date

1987

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Subject

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union

Legislators--United States

Friendship quilts

Spatial Coverage

Soviet Union

Russia

Type

Still Image