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

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00004

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract

Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Bonnie Kern papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract

Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.



Arrangement

Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.

Dates: 1945 - 2014

Edith Sprout memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0682
Abstract

Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1978

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

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

Madge Clark Girard papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract

Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1991

Mae Atkinson Robinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0506
Abstract

Correspondence and diaries of an Iowa farm woman.

Dates: 1898-1954

Mary Hagen memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0531
Abstract

Memoir describing life on a family farm near Manly, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1996

Off and Holsteen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0306
Abstract

Two generations of an eastern Iowa family, many generations of which attended the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1864-1970

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

Ruth Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0482
Abstract

The first female pilot in Appanoose County and active in the local Democratic Party.

Dates: 1925-2002

Willow Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0487
Abstract

Diaries describe growing up in rural Iowa in the 1960s and the period from1992 to 2001.

Dates: 1960-2001