For two weeks only!
Catch this special pop-up exhibition at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum in honor of Women’s History Month from March 3rd through March 14th. As we reflect on the past 250 years of American history, it becomes apparent that women have been severely underrepresented in the historical record.
This exhibit features women whose work has impacted the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum; paired with “Picturing Women Inventors” a Smithsonian poster exhibition.
TCPM is honoring just a few of the women whose work has impacted the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. Come learn more about these women during our “Picturing Women in History” exhibit on display through March 14. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, admission required.
Here are a couple of the women featured:
Marguerite Tilden Stasek was born in Bay City, October 7, 1892. She grew up in Nehalem where she graduated high school and went to work for the newspaper office of the Nehalem Enterprise. After her husband died, and with three children to raise, Marguerite went to work with the Oregon Historical Records Survey, funded by the Works Progress Administration. The chief purpose of the Oregon Historical Records Survey was to compile guides to the historical materials contained in the archives of local governmental units. Stasek made the first survey through the records. She worked on the project from 1937 to 1939.
Born Lillie Eleanor Sizemore on November 20, 1884 in Sinking Fork, Kentucky, she moved to Oregon with her family in 1906 at the age of 21. She married Frank Kumm in 1913 and began their newly-wed life in Beaver. Lillie was hired as the Museum’s Custodian on April 1, 1946 where she oversaw institutional record-keeping and the expansion of exhibits from one floor to the entire building of the former courthouse. Lillie and Frank were the first Museum staff members to live in the building. Lillie retired from the Museum in 1955 and passed away on August 21, 1960.
Come learn more about a few of the women who shaped the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum at this pop-up exhibit from now until March 14th.
For more about the Museum go to www.tcpm.org.