Letter to Mary Farnham Regarding Sacajawea Statue

Title

Letter to Mary Farnham Regarding Sacajawea Statue

Description

A letter from Eva Emery Dye, an active women's right supporter and author, to Mrs. Mary Farnham. The letter is dated May 15th, 1903 and commends female students at Pacific University for their essays written about Sacajewea. At this time Dye was head of the Sacajawea Statue Association in Portland, Oregon. The organization was responsible for raising money and commissioning the Sacajawea and John-Baptist statue erected in Portland's Washington Park on July 6th, 1905. The group raised $7,000 for the projected and hired Denver artist, Alice Cooper, to create the bronze statue. Dye is best known for her book Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark. She is credited as the first person to give historical credit to Sacajewea. This letter appears in a scrapbook album compiled by Frances B. Clapp, a 1908 Pacific University student.

Creator

Eva Emery Dye

Date

1903

Is Part Of

Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (MS.11)

Language

English

Identifier

PUA_MS11_172

Subject

Student activities

Students--Oregon

Rights

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

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon, United States

Bibliographic Citation

Letter to Mary Farnham Regarding Sacajawea Statue, Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (1903), 130, Pacific University Archives, Forest Grove, Oregon.

Source

Pacific University Archives

Type

Still Image