Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
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oral history
orphan characters
Orphan Girl mine
ovarian cancer
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Pacific Coast Coal Company
Pacific Northwest
painting
paper: onionskin
quality and rationing of
quantity needed for The Egg and I
Parker pen company
The Pastures of Heaven (Steinbeck)
“Patsy, Who Would Not Take a Bath” (MacDonald)
Pavlova, Anna
pertussis (whooping cough)
Peshastin, WA
physicians. See doctors
Pioneer House, Chimacum, WA
Pixley, Vida
placer mining
Placerville, ID
plague. See tuberculosis
The Plague and I (MacDonald): about
Anybody Can Do Anything compared to
Betty’s presence in
Betty’s view of
book signing
copies of
cover
as educational
fan mail from
female characters in
Good Housekeeping condensation of
home described in
idea for
Onions in the Stew compared to
promotional and publicity for
racial issues in
reactions and reviews
serialized version of
structure of
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (Kerr)
pneumothorax treatments
Pocket Books
Portland, OR
Portland Academy
Portland High School
Port Ludlow, WA
Port Townsend, WA
poverty
pregnancies: Anne
Betty
Sydney
the press, dealing with
press releases
product endorsements
Pt. Townsend Leader
publicity: Anybody Can Do Anything
The Egg and I (film)
eggs and
The Plague and I
tours
Publisher’s Weekly
Puget Sound
Pyle, Ernie
R
radio: Betty on
interviews on
KOL
listening to
Schuyler Square (Sydney Bard)
Raising Demons (Jackson)
ranch. See Corral de Tierra Ranch, Carmel Valley, CA
rationing
Ravenna Elementary School, Seattle
Reader’s Digest
red hair
red-light district, Butte
“The Red Satin Raincoat” (unfinished) (MacDonald)
release deal for film (Bob Heskett)
reminder books
Repertory Theater, Seattle
reporters
research
Rhodes Department Store, Seattle
Rich, Louise Dickinson
“richest hill on earth” (Butte)
Risher, Francis
romance
Romeo Rooster
Rooney, Micke
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt District, Seattle
Roosevelt High School, Seattle
roundups
royalty income
Rush Medical College
Russell, Rosalind
S
saloons
sanatoria movement. See also tuberculosis
Sanderson, Jim (uncle)
Sanderson, Mary Ten Eyck Cleveland Cox (grandmother)
Sanderson, Sidney Cleveland (uncle)
Sanderson, Sydney A. (grandfather)
“Sandra Surrenders” (MacDonald)
San Francisco
Saranac Lake, NY, sanatorium
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Review
Saturday Review of Literature
Savage, George Milton
scarlet fever
schools: Chimacum High School
Lincoln High School, Seattle
Lowell Elementary, Seattle
McKinley School, Butte
Portland School and Portland Academy (Darsie)
Ravenna Elementary, Seattle
Roosevelt High, Seattle
St. Nicholas, Seattle
Schulman, Bill
Schuyler Square (radio serial) (Sydney Bard)
Seagrave, Gordon
Seattle: in 1916
in Anybody Can Do Anything
author in
Bard family move to
Betty as homegrown royalty in
Betty feeling underappreciated in
Capitol Hill
ferry service
finding Bard homes in
First Hill neighborhood
Japantown/Nihonmachi
Laurelhurst District
Madrona neighborhood
New Washington Hotel (now Josephinum)
North Capitol Hill
Roosevelt District
Smith Tower
University District. See also houses and homes
Seattle Day Nursery
Seattle Light Co.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Press
Seattle Star
Seattle Symphony
Seattle Times
secretarial jobs (Betty)
Sendak, Maurice
serialization: of Anybody Can Do Anything
of The Egg and I
of The Plague and I
Sibbald, Rev. Eleazer
Silver Bow Club
Silver Bow County, MT
Smith, Gwen (later Croxford)
Smith, Kate
Smith, L. C.
Smith Brothers
Smith Tower, Seattle
snobbery
Sone, Monica (earlier Kazuko Itoi)
South, Jean
Stanwyck, Barbara
Stark, Edith Bishop
Star Ranch Road, Placerville
State College of Washington (now Washington State University)
State Savings and Loan Association
State Savings and Loan Corp.
Steinbeck, John
Stevens, George
Stith, Dr. Robert
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Boulder
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Butte
St. John’s Hospital, Port Townsend
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle
St. Nicholas School, Seattle
storyteller, Betty as
streetcars
Strunk, Betsy (granddaughter)
Strunk, Donald (son-in-law)
Strunk, Johnny (grandson)
Sugia, Darsie (nephew)
Sugia, Frank (brother-in-law)
suitors
“Sydney” (mother). See Bard, Sydney
Sylvia (sister). See Bard, Sylvia Remsen
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Tanya (Roesijadi)
Tarboo, WA
taxes
tearoom (Mandarin), Seattle
Temple, Shirley
“Their Families” (MacDonald)
Thompson, Kay
Thomsen Chapel, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle
thoracoplasty
“Time-Traveling the Roosevelt District with Betty MacDonald” (Becker)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
“Too Old to Ride” (planned) (MacDonald)
tours, publicity
tours of the Egg property by the Larsons
Town Crier
translation of Betty’s books
Travers, P. L.
Treasury Department, U.S.
Tregaskis, Richard
trial. See Bishop/Kettle et al. libel suits; lawsuits and court cases
Trocadero nightclub, Hollywood
Trudeau, Dr. Edward L.
Trudeau, Dr. F. B.
Trunk, Frank
Tsuyuki, Geary
tuberculosis: antibiotics for
Anti-Tuberculosis League of King County
in Anybody Can Do Anything
Betty’s pulmonary tuberculosis and treatment
bovine
children’s sanatorium visits
fan mail from patients
Firland Sanatorium
gender and racial segregation of patients
law limiting marriage of patients with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
National Tuberculosis Assn. Christmas Seals campaign
pneumothorax treatments
rates of
relapse, threat of
as sequel topic
Tuberculous meningitis
vaccine for
as “white plague”
writing about. See also The Plague and I
Twain, Mark
U
Uncle Remus (Harris)
Universal-International Pictures
University Book Store, Seattle
University Club, Seattle
University Congregational Church, Seattle
University District, Seattle
University of Colorado
University of Southern California Film and Television Library
University of Washington
University Provision Co.
University Village, Seattle
University Way Club
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vaccine for tuberculosis
Vashon Heritage Museum
Vashon Island, WA: attempted sale of house
bridge efforts
chicken project
description of
Dolphin Point Trail house
The Egg and I and
ferry between Seattle and
as home base for Betty and Sydney after selling Howe St. house
home in
house rented out
Jens and Mary’s beach house
move to Calif. from
in Onions in the Stew
Verstappen, Henry
Viorst, Judith
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waffles
Wallgren, Monrad
Walsteed, George
War Production Board
Washington, DC
Washington Athletic Club luncheon
Washington Mutual Bank
Washington State
weddings. See marriages (Betty)
West Construction Co.
Western Development Co.
Westside neighborhood, Butte, MT
We Took to the Woods (Rich)
White, E. B.
“white plague”. See also tuberculosis
Who, Me? (MacDonald)
whooping cough (pertussis) “Why I Like Old Gold” cigarette ad contest
widows and widowhood: Aldena Bishop
Annie McGuire
in Butte
Gammy
Sydney
Wiese, Kurt
“wifing”
Wilcox, George
Wilcox, Loli
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilkins, Judge William
Williams, Garth
Williams, Guy
Williamson, Samuel
Winsor, Kathleen
Women of the Year award (1946)
Women’s University Club, Seattle
Woods, Josephine Hoeppner
Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA)
World War I
World War II: The Egg and I and
Japanese internment
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and
Wright, Percy
writers, aspiring
writing time, finding
X
X-rays
Y
Yellowstone
You Can’t Take It with You (play; Kaufman and Hart)