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Plummer (Edna C.) papers
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  • Conditions Governing Access
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  • Biography
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Edna Covert Plummer papers
    Creator: Plummer, Edna Covert
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0361
    Physical Description: 0.6 Linear Feet (1 box, 3 flat boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1918-1984
    Abstract: Edna Covert Plummer (1907-1972) was the organizer of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank (Eureka, Nevada), the co-founder of the Legal Aid Foundation, and the nation's first woman district attorney. The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, yearbooks, memorandum book, articles, and a narrative relating to Edna Covert Plummer.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Edna Covert Plummer papers (Collection 361). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Jewell Fraley, 1995.

    Processing Information

    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, June 1995.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233594 

    Biography

    Plummer was born in 1907; she was the organizer of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Eureka, Nevada; cofounder of the Legal Aid Foundation; first woman trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; an active member of many public service organizations; and the nation's first woman district attorney; she died in 1972.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, yearbooks, memorandum book, articles, and a narrative relating to Edna Covert Plummer. Includes a Northeastern Nevada Historical Society pamphlet on Plummer, a Texas Rotary article on her, letters received from Alexandra Tolstoy relating to the Tolstoy Foundation, and a narrative of Georgia by Prince Serge Mdivani. Also includes scrapbooks for the Serge and David Mdivani trial and the Los Angeles Women's Health Club, and three high school yearbooks.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Scrapbooks.
    Public prosecutors -- United States -- Archives.
    Women lawyers -- United States -- Archives.
    Plummer, Edna Covert -- Archives