Say We Are Here: Selections from the Verdell A. Burdine and Otto G. Rutherford Family Collection

Yakima High School diploma, Verdell Anna F. Burdine, 1931.

The typing and stenography skills that Verdell learned in high school made a crucial difference in her ability to earn wages and engage in activism throughout her life.

Personal photograph, Rutherford family home, c. 1922.

Verdell carefully annotated this picture for posterity.  The house became an historic landmark in 1999, nominated by the Bosco-Milligan Foundation.

Personal photograph, “1975 Four Generations.”

Left to right: Verdell, Maggie, Charlotte, and Yasha.