Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Bertha Caine Diary
1927-1928
Cage 4947
Table of Contents
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.
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."
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.
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.
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)