wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Benita Allen papers
Russian immigrant recalls her childhood in Russia during World War I and the 1917 revolution.
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Helen Shediwy Scheetz memoir
The youngest daughter of immigrants reflects on growing up in Iowa towns during the Depression.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Maria Cano Martinez papers
Maria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.
Nancy De Vries Blom papers
Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982
Rosalie Braverman papers
Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.