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]. Spillane, Elva Walker. 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: 007915134
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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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| 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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