Ruth Evelyn Morse Parkhurst and Austin Flint Parkhurst papers 1936-1983

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Ruth Evelyn Morse Parkhurst and Austin Flint Parkhurst papers 1936-1983

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Ruth Evelyn Morse (1899-1983) taught in American Indian schools and was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and her husband, Austin Flint Parkhurst (1885-1965), was in the Navy during WWI and became a radio engineer. The collection contains personal and professional records of Ruth Parkhurst, including her career as a teacher in American Indian schools and her work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as well as personal and professional (mostly military) records of Austin Parkhurst, and photographs and negatives of Europe during WWI.

7.0 linear feet, 21 containers

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University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6368123

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Parkhurst, Ruth Evelyn Morse, 1899-1983

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Ruth Evelyn Morse (1899-1983) was a teacher in American Indian schools in South Dakota, Kansas, and Oregon, and worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). She married Austin Flint Parkhurst (1885-1965), who was a radio engineer, in 1946. Ruth Parkhurst is the sister of China-Pakistan medical missionary Esther Morse, whose papers are also held at UO Special Collections and University Archives. Ruth Parkhurst served as Dr. Morse's secretary. From the guide to the Ruth...

Parkhurst, Austin Flint, 1885-1965

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Ruth Evelyn Morse (1899-1983) was a teacher in American Indian schools in South Dakota, Kansas, and Oregon, and worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). She married Austin Flint Parkhurst (1885-1965), who was a radio engineer, in 1946. Ruth Parkhurst is the sister of China-Pakistan medical missionary Esther Morse, whose papers are also held at UO Special Collections and University Archives. Ruth Parkhurst served as Dr. Morse's secretary. From the guide to the Ruth...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...