wa00004/wa00004.1. Diaries
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Ruth Laughlin papers
Social activist and writer.
Ruth M. Roland Cowden diary
Transcription of the 1921 diary of a journey by car from Des Moines, Iowa, to Los Angeles, California.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
Shloss and Mannheimer Families papers
Prominent Des Moines families including Irma Mannheimer, her husband Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and her parents, Rose and Max Shloss—the owners of Lederer and Strauss and Company.
Suzanne Bunkers papers
English professor and diarist whose academic publications focus on women's history and diaries. Her own diaries reflect both her professional development and her personal life.
Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.
Thelma Petersen papers
Diaries of homemaker from Kirkman, Iowa.
Van Zante and De Cook Families papers
Late 19th century diary of adolescent Dutch-American farm girl and 1932 farm diary of her daughter-in-law.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Vera Holzhauer papers
Diaries and account books of a homemaker and Sunday school teacher from Muscatine, Iowa from 1915 to 1959.
Vina Thorpe papers
Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.
Wilda Jean Schobert papers
Percival, Iowa farm woman and club woman.
Willow Hill papers
Diaries describe growing up in rural Iowa in the 1960s and the period from1992 to 2001.