wa00004/wa00004.1. Diaries
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Beverly Everett papers
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Catharine King Herr papers
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Charlotte Faxon papers
Teacher who traveled widely during the Civil War period.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dallner and Petersen Family papers
Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
Gladys Homan papers
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers
Farmwoman, basketball player on Newhall High School girls state championship team in 1927.
Inez Christen papers
Transcribed diaries of a Northeast Iowa hired girl, farmwoman and mother.
Jennie Sies papers
Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.
Jesse Virginia Antrim Perkins papers
Rural elementary school teacher and farm wife whose papers consist of three partial journals.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers
Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.
Kate Martinson papers
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Laura Gibson Smith papers
Casey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.
Lela Powers Briggs papers
An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.