wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Grace Ferns papers
Memoir and oral history transcript of a rural Iowa school teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Henrietta Ruff papers
Amana, Iowa, school teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women
Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.
Jeanne Van Kley papers
Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers
Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.
Lois Boulware papers
Physician in the University of Iowa Student Health Department, who established the Patient Advocacy Program at University Hospitals after marrying and having a child.
Mabel Korver Van Haaften memoir
Dutch-American farmwoman in early nineteenth century Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Madge Clark Girard papers
Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Marie Giddings papers
Detailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Mary Louise Smith papers
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Oral Histories of Iowa Policewomen
15 interviews and associated materials document the entry of women into Iowa's law enforcement agencies.