Norma Smith Papers 1895-2000

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Norma Smith Papers 1895-2000

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The Norma Smith Papers contain her research material in writing her manuscript on Jeannette Rankin. The collection also contains: photocopies of Jeannette Rankin correspondence throughout her career; Norma's research notes and bibliographic material; research correspondence; correspondence with Jeannette Rankin and her personal secretary, Reita Rivers; notes from Norma's interviews with Rankin as well as copies of other interviews, and clippings. In addition to her research on Jeannette Rankin, the collection also includes personal papers, other research material, and family history research. The collection also contains photographs of Jeannette Rankin and her home in Georgia and pictures of Norma's family.

3.2 linear feet

eng,

MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973

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Smith, Norma, 1913-2001

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Norma Smith was born on 1 Mar. 1913 in Mohler, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism in 1933. Smith lived in Bozeman from 1950 until 1967. During that time she completed her master's degree in history, graduating in 1961 from Montana State College. She worked as a secretary, social worker, newspaper reporter, editor, and free lance writer having published some poetry in the Saturday Evening Post. She married Louis De Smith and they had three children. She ...

Rivers, Reita

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