Alison Palmer Papers

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Alison Palmer Papers

1853-1991

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2498843~S7

Includes legal documents relating to her two lawsuits against the State Department; photographs, clippings, museum objects, and other materials relating to her work in the Foreign Service and the Episcopal ministry; autobiography; tape recordings. Also includes typescript diary and legal documents of Lois Patten Palmer; copies of miscellaneous family letters; typescript diary and other papers of Clementine Brainerd Weston; and miscellaneous printed materials, including books relating to women's liberation.

Approximately 6 linear feet.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6783242

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

United States. Department of State

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Palmer, Lois Mead Patten.

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Weston, Clementine Brainerd.

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Palmer, Alison, 1959-

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Brown University Class of 1953. Worked as writer for Christian Science Monitor and New York Times; served in the United States Foreign Service (1959-1981) in Belgian Congo, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Honored for her service in Vietnam. Filed sex discrimination complaint (relating to her assigment in Africa) against the State Department and won her case in 1974. Together with women colleagues brought a class action suit against the Department and won in 1987. Thirteenth woman Episcopal priest ordaine...