wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Collection — Folder 1: Series 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract
Arrangement
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract
A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.
Dates:
1917-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ortha P. Neff papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
Dates:
1858-2012
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives