wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Beverly Everett papers
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Faye T. Wookey papers
Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Gladys Talcott Rife papers
Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.
Grace Ferns papers
Memoir and oral history transcript of a rural Iowa school teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Marcella Henley Smith papers
Memoir, Confetti, of her life in Albia, Iowa, correspondence, and journals of books read since 1959.
Marie Rumble papers
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Marjorie Vandervelde papers
Photojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.
McGill Family papers
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.
Ruth Perkins Messenger Papers
Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Thelma Petersen papers
Velma Skott Teeple memoir
Childhood memories of an Eastern Iowa teacher, writer, and farmwoman.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Voices from the Land: An Oral History Project in Iowa
Oral histories with Iowa farm women conducted as part of the Rural Women's Project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
Willow Hill papers
Diaries describe growing up in rural Iowa in the 1960s and the period from1992 to 2001.