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wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00004

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Bluford Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0159
Abstract

Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.

Dates: 1977-1997

Lela Powers Briggs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0043
Abstract

An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.

Dates: 1892-1992

Paula Watts Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0002
Abstract

Civic leader in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1930-1974

Suzanne Bunkers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0415
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1964-2017

Gladys Conn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0225
Abstract

Social worker and State University of Iowa graduate from Marne, Iowa, whose papers include diaries and family correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2001

Margaret Strang Corothers papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0324
Abstract

Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1934

Ruth M. Roland Cowden diary

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0287
Abstract

Transcription of the 1921 diary of a journey by car from Des Moines, Iowa, to Los Angeles, California.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1996

Mary Ann Dunn Leonard papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0995
Abstract

Diary of two years in the life of a Cedar County farm woman.

Dates: 1890-1891

Kay Hata papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0766
Abstract

Oral history. Japanese-American nurse who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Dates: 1998

Judith Yarger Hull papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0767
Abstract

Memoir, “Discovering My World, 1936-1958.”

Dates: 2001

Elise Boddicker Schallau papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1006
Abstract

Memoir, 1998, 58pp. Schallau reflects on farming and family life in two Iowa Counties – Benton and Iowa.

Dates: 1980-1998

Jennifer Baum papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1016
Abstract

Iowa City woman who lived and worked in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Dates: unknown

Maranda Cline Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1320
Abstract

Consists of a transcribed diary that includes daily entries describing family life near Hills, Iowa from 1891 to 1907.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1891 - 1907

Esther Flower Cruikshank Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1054
Abstract

Photocopy of memoir, "The Covered Wagon," by Esther Flower Cruikshank written in 1927.

Dates: Existence: 1927

Mary Bell Read Glick papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1059
Abstract

Two memoirs, "Adolph Gfeller Family: A Pictorial History of a Pioneer German Swiss Farm Family in Kansas, beginning 1874" and "Our 64 Years, 1932-1996," by Mary Bell Glick.

Dates: 1978 - 1996

Zelinda Griffith Hadley papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1060
Abstract

Typed memoir titled "Zelinda Griffith Hadley Story."

Dates: 1933

Maxine Wicker papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1077
Abstract

"My Life In The Midwest," written by Maxine Wicker for local access television program Book Talk for the Senior Center.

Dates: 1999

Jacquelyn Jarmuth Phillips and Barbara Jarmuth Campbell papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0917
Abstract

Spiral-bound transcriptions of oral histories with sisters Jacquelyn Jarmuth Phillips and Barbara Jarmuth Campbell, edited with Introduction and photos.

Dates: 2013

Mabel E. Dixon papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1111
Abstract

Travel diary of Mable E. Dixon concerning her time in France.

Dates: 1927

Esther Hasson Morris papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1144
Abstract

A memoir, "Grandpa's Legacy: Short Stories of My Life."

Dates: 1997