ELVA WALKER SPILLANE:
An Inventory of Her Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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| Creator: |
Spillane, Elva Walker, 1914-2001,
creator.
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| Title: | Elva Walker Spillane
papers. |
| Dates: | 1928-2012 (bulk 1964-1990). |
| Language: | Materials in English. |
| Abstract: | Biographical materials, correspondence, campaign materials,
certificates, interview transcripts, speeches, photographs, and scrapbooks of an
activist for the aged and Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for Congress from
Minnesota's Third District (1966). |
| Quantity: | 1.90 cubic feet (2 boxes and 1 item in
partial box). |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf
locations. |
Elva Walker Spillane was born Elva Dawson in Everett, Massachusetts, June 29, 1914.
She married Dr. Walter Walker, a grandson of Minneapolis lumberman T. B. Walker, in
Boston and moved to Minnesota. They were divorced, and she married Minneapolis
businessman Jack Spillane in 1979. Walker Spillane was concerned with issues
relating to aging and nursing, serving on numerous boards and committees at the
local, state and national levels. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a DFL
candidate from Minnesota's Third District in 1966. With her husband Jack she
operated National Purity, Inc., a Minneapolis soap company. She died November 24,
2001 at her home in Deephaven, Minnesota.
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Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Elva
Walker Spillane Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,892
Processing Information:
Processed by: David B. Peterson, July 2014
Catalog ID number: 990079151340104294
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| Location | Box |
| P1527 | 1 | Biographical materials: |
| | | Miscellany, undated and 2001. |
| | | | Includes campaign stationery, memorial folder of Stephen A. Walker and
obituaries of Elva Walker Spillane. |
| | | Transcript of memorial service, November 28, 2001. |
| | | | Transcription by Marilyn Olson-Treml (September 2011). |
| | | All for the love of children: A history of
the formative years of Minneapolis Children's Medical Center,
undated. |
| | | | Photocopy with Elva Walker Spillane passages marked. |
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| | Campaign materials, [1966]. |
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| | Certificates, undated and 1967-2002, 2012. |
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| | Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1965-2001, 2012. |
| | | Includes letters from Minnesota governors and senators, President Bill
Clinton, and others. Also includes ticket stubs and memorabilia from the
1977 presidential inauguration. |
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| | Interview transcripts, 1988-1996. 2 folders. |
| | | Includes transcriptions (2011) of interviews on KMSP television's Senior
Citizens Forum program and WCCO radio's Good Neighbor program; remarks made
at a brunch at the Spillane home (1990), at the National Council on the
Aging Giancarlo Parretti Achievement Award Dinner (1991), and at a joint
appearance by former President Jimmy Carter and former Vice President Walter
Mondale at Macalester College (1993). |
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| | Transcripts of news coverage of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev's visit
to Minnesota, June 3, 1990. |
| | | Transcriptions (2011) of WCCO-TV and CNN news coverage of the visit to the
Twin Cities, and of Gorbachev's meeting with Minnesota business leaders at
the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Minneapolis. |
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| | Photographs, 1928, 1964-1999. |
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| | Photographs of political figures, undated. |
| | | Photographs and greeting cards from political figures addressed to Walker and
to the Spillanes. |
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| | Photocopies of plaques, 1962-2002. |
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| | Press clippings/articles, 1967-1997. |
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| | Speeches: |
| | | Economic opportunity, 1962-1966. |
| | | | Includes Children's Hospital Association. |
| | | Nursing, 1964-1969. |
| | | Political, 1959-1969. |
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| Location | Box |
| 142.G.13.1B-1 | 2 | Scrapbooks, 1939-1967. 3 volumes. |
| | | Includes correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia. |
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| | Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service appointment
certificate, 1967. |
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| Location | |
| 138.E.4.8 | | Older Americans Act collage, 1965. 1 item in partial box. |
| | | Includes correspondence, clippings, a snapshot photograph of President Lyndon
B. Johnson signing the act, and one of the pens Johnson used on the
occasion. |
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Businesswomen -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Older people.
- Political candidates -- Minnesota.
- Persons:
- Gorbachev, Mikhail.
- Organizations:
- Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Party.
- United States. -- Older Americans Act
of 1965.
- Document Types:
- Photographs.
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