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University of Iowa

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Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Kelley papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0485
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.

Dates: 1888-2005

Archie L. Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract

Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.

Dates: 1963-1998

Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract

Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.

Dates: 1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06

Christie York papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0701
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate and laboratory assistant who was active in student government and served as a steward in AFSCME Local 12.

Dates: 1950-2001

Christine Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract

Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.

Dates: 1952-2022

Gladys Talcott Rife papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0284
Abstract

Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.

Dates: 1920-2002

Helene Scriabine papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0080
Abstract

Author and Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Iowa, who emmigrated to the United States after surviving the siege of Leningrad in 1941.

Dates: 1940-1996

Iowa Authors Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0869
Abstract

Includes manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, dust jackets, and other miscellany associated with publications of many Iowa Authors.

Dates: 1888-1990

Janie Yates-Glandorf papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0337
Abstract

Iowa City high school drama and English teacher.

Dates: 1943-2005

Jean Lloyd-Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0066
Abstract

State legislator from Iowa City and president of the Iowa Peace Institute.

Dates: 1964-2021

Lois Baker Muehl papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0470
Abstract

University of Iowa rhetoric professor who published children's books and taught English as a second language at refugee camps in Thailand, Korea, and China.



Arrangement

Three works have been transferred to the Iowa Women's Archives printed works collection: Trading Cultures in the Classroom, 1993; The Hidden Year of Devlin Bates, 1967; Worst Room in the School, 1961.

Dates: 1952-2006

Magdaline Shannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0902
Abstract

Scholar and translator whose work focused on Haitian intellectual Jean Price-Mars.

Dates: 1936-2001

Margaret Keyes papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0038
Abstract

Professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and nationally recognized leader in the field of historic preservation.

Dates: 1907-2015

Marianne Michael papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0453
Abstract

Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.

Dates: 1897-2005

Mary Parden papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0416
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate who worked as secretary to four University of Iowa presidents.

Dates: 1929-1999

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0054
Abstract

Journalist for the Toledo Blade and writer of the first Nancy Drew mysteries and other children's series books; collection includes writings, clippings, scrapbooks, fan mail, photographs, and a typewriter.

Dates: 1875-2012

Nancy V. "Rusty" Barceló Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0351
Abstract

Activist and administrator at the University of Iowa whose papers provide insight into Latino life and culture in Iowa and across the Midwest.

Dates: 1946-2005

Paul Engle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0514
Abstract

Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.

Dates: 1929-1988

Phyllis Harper-Bardach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0319
Abstract

Educator of hearing-impaired children and retired professor of Education at the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1940-1998

Prentiss Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0060
Abstract

The family came to Iowa City in 1905 when Henry Prentiss established the Anatomy Department at the State University of Iowa.

Dates: 1891-1996

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College students 13
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Diaries 9
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College teachers 7
Authors 6
Slides (photographs) 6
Teachers 6
Video recordings 6
Women in higher education 6
Families 5
High school students 5
Memoirs 5
Oral histories 5
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English literature 3
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Women 3
Women in education 3
Women's rights 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
2011-2020 2
Authors, American 2
Autograph albums 2
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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Divorce 2
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Fiction -- Authorship 2
Files (digital files) 2
High school teachers 2
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Minority women 2
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Poems 2
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Poets 2
Press releases 2
Refugees 2
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Secretaries 2
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Volunteers 2
Washington (D.C.) 2
Women -- Political activity 2
Women and War 2
Women in journalism 2
Working class women 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 2
Writers Archive at Iowa 2
Yearbooks 2
Acoustical engineering 1
Acting 1
Acting teachers 1
Actresses 1
Adams County (Pa.) 1
Administrative records 1
Adopted children 1
Adoption 1
Affirmative action programs in education 1
African American women 1
African American women -- Iowa 1
African diaspora 1
Ainsi parla l'oncle. English -- Translations 1
Alumni and alumnae 1
American prose literature 1
Ames (Iowa) 1
Annual reports 1
Apple is eaten 1
Art 1
Art teachers 1
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Artists 1
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Authorship 1
Basic guide to pesticides 1
Bible as literature 1
Birds 1
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