Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Goodman (Minerva) Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1914-1962
Collection number: Mss97
Creator:
Audrey M. Johnson
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Goodman (Minerva) Papers, Mss97, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Goodman, Minerva (1876-1967)
corporate name
California Equal Suffrage Association
corporate name
Stockton Political Equality Club
corporate name
National Council of Women Voters
corporate name
Wage Earners' Suffrage League
corporate name
Washington Equal Suffrage Association
subject
Suffragists -California -Stockton
subject
Women physicians -California -Stockton
corporate name
Red Cross -California -Stockton
Biography
Trained as a physician at the University of Minnesota, Minerva Goodman
(1876-1967)worked with the Chinese, the poor and the elderly of Stockton
(Calif.) from 1904 until she retired in 1962. Goodman was instrumental in
establishing x-ray testing for tuberculosis in Stockton. She served the College
of the Pacific as physician to women students for thirty-eight years
(1924-1962). Minerva Goodmn was also active in the woman suffrage movement. She
was, at different times, President, Secretary and Public Relations Officer for
the Stockton Political Equality Club (1904-1911), an affiliate of the
California Equal Suffrage Association.
Scope and Content
The Minerva Goodman Collection consists principally of correspondence,
minutes and flyers relating to various California and Stockton woman suffrage
organizations (1904-1911).
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