Guide to the Bertha Caine Diary 1927-1928
Cage 4947

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Caine, Bertha.
Title
Bertha Caine Diary
ID
Cage 4947
Date [inclusive]
1927-1928
Extent
.1 Linear Feet of Shelf Space, 1 folder
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
This collection consists of a one-volume diary, in which Bertha Caine recorded her daily experiences at home and at work, interactions with her neighbors, including many well-known Pullman families, and discussed her relationships with her family and her estranged husband, Roy Caine.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description] Bertha Caine diary, 1927-1928

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

In "Bertha Caine Worked for the Red Cross" (Bunchgrass Historian volume 6, number 2, Summer 1978), Dorothy Matson wrote:

"Mrs. Bertha Caine of Pullman, Washington was born at Glidden, Wisc., 1902, and the family went to St. Maries, Idaho and homesteaded. She married Roy Caine and they came to Pullman Christmas Day in 1926. They had three children: Bernice (Mrs. Dick) Emerson, of Washington, D.C., Beatrice (Mrs. Harlan) Gilliam, Cheney and James (Bud) Caine of Spokane. Roy was a carpenter and worked for the college and helped build the first gym. They separated soon after and Bertha had to support her children by cleaning for people. She worked for 30c an hour, and walked to and from her jobs. During the depression, she traded a sack of potatoes for a lot adjoining her house."

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Scope and Content

This collection consists of a one-volume diary, in which Bertha Caine recorded her daily experiences at home and at work, interactions with her neighbors, including many well-known Pullman families, and discussed her relationships with her family and her estranged husband, Roy Caine. She often noted details about her finances--income from her work and from her husband, and her struggles to pay expenses.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2016

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Information

This diary was donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Susan Armitage (part of MS 2008-14). Helen Perry of the Neill Public Library gave it to Dr. Armitage, after receiving it from a library patron who had purchased it at a yard sale in 1988.

Processing Information

This collection was processed in 2009 by Cheryl Gunselman.

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Names and Subjects

Geographic Name(s)

  • Pullman (Wash.) -- History -- Sources.

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Caine, Bertha -- Diaries.

Subject(s)

  • Mothers -- Washington (State) -- Pullman.
  • Women -- Washington (State) -- Diaries.
  • Women
  • Washington (State)

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