Finding Aid for the Edna Covert Plummer Papers
LSC.0361
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff, June 1995; machine-readable
finding aid created by Amy Shung-Gee Wong.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2021 August 11.
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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
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Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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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.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
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
box 1
Northeastern Nevada Historical Society pamphlet on Plummer.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, 1984.
box 1
Texaco Rotary article mentions Plummer.
1928.
box 1
Correspondence
re client Brenetta
Yerg.
box 1
ECP Scrap Book--notes.
Scope and Contents note
Explanation of ECP book plate.
box 1
Poinsettia (yearbook of Hollywood High
School).
General note
1918 from George Fraley.
box 1
Poinsettia (yearbook of Hollywood High
School).
General note
1919 from George Fraley.
box 1
The Stylus (yearbook of Glendale Union High
School).
General note
1922 from George Fraley.
box 1
Tolstoy Foundation.
Scope and Contents note
Letters received from Alexandra Tolstoy (daughter of Leo Tolstoy).
box 1
Narrative of Georgia (USSR) by Prince Serge Mdivani.
box 1
Memorandum book with collected quotations.
box 1
Correspondence, notes, ephemera
re Princess der
Ling.
box 2
Scrapbook for Los Angeles Women's Health Club.
box 4
Scrapbook of Serge and David Mdivani trial.
