Day Two of Women’s Page History in Seven Object – is the telephone. The above phone was a Christmas present this year. It was found in an antique store in Cocoa Beach. The women’s page reporter on the phone is Bobbi McCallum. She was a journalist in Seattle who died at age 25. There is a scholarship still given in her memory. The image above can be found in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer collection at the Museum of History & Industry. Here is a link to my story about Bobbi.

This is a narrative about discovering Bobbi McCallum and about the historical process. Often, as scholars, we focus on the results – what it is we found. This is the story of how I got to the results. It is patterned after the work of Gabrielle Burton in Searching for Tamsen Donner. In the book, Barton explored her own research process as a writer.

My article about Seattle women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum is in this month’s issue of Columbia, the Magazine of Northwest History. It is now available here.

My article about Seattle women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum is in this month’s issue of Columbia, the Magazine of Northwest History. It is now available here.

I was happy to see that the Bobbi McCallum Scholarship will continue even though the Seattle P-I went under. Bobbi was a women’s page journalist at the P-I in the later 1960s. After her sudden death at age 25, this scholarship was created in her honor. My article about Bobbi comes out next month.