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From: Ted Finch <>
Subject: [FHSA] Search for "Harvey Girls"
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:59:06 -0700


FHSA Members-
Linda Swain, a former FHSA President, is conducting the following search
and lecture series. If you have a Harvey Girl in your genealogy, you may
want to participate. -Ted Finch, Current FHSA Pres.

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The Harvey Girls tour has spun off a reunion and a public lecture series.
Thought you'd be interested in knowing the latest. (Pass it on.)

Linda
Coordinator, Southwest Retrospective: The Harvey Girls lecture series
(480) 893-0469

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Fred Harvey Employees and Descendants to Meet at AZ Railway Museum (ARM)
ARM and Phoenix Museum of History (PMH) Cosponsor Lecture Series

A search is on to locate "Harvey Girls" (and other employees) who worked for
the Fred Harvey Company (1880 - 1945).

More than 100,000 women worked at Fred Harvey establishments along the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Many Harvey Girls married railroad men
and settled in Arizona.

Employees and descendants are invited to share family stories and display
memorabilia at a gathering on a vintage passenger car at the Arizona Railway
Museum in Chandler (Chandler Blvd. and Delaware St.), on Sat., Feb. 3, 2001
at 1 p.m.

A free lecture series on the Santa Fe Railway, the Fred Harvey Co., and
Native American art and culture will be held on Thurs., Apr. 19 and Sat.,
Apr. 21, 2001 at the Phoenix Museum of History (7th St. and Monroe St.). The
series is cosponsored by ARM and PMH.

Guest speakers include:
-Marshall Trimble (Official Arizona State Historian)
-Raymond Verr (Harvey Girls Historian/Collector)
-Pete Kaczmarowski (Rail Historian)
-Diane Thomas (Author, The Southwestern Indian Detours)
-George Foster (Transportation Historian/Author, The Harvey House Cookbook)
-Buddy Gatewood and Steve Conder (Kachina Carvers)

For information or to RSVP, call Linda Swain at (480) 893-0469.

Swain is past-president of the Family History Society of Arizona, Inc. She
lectures on genealogy and has organized seminars and study tours since 1995.



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