wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Marian Farquhar papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0064
Abstract
Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.
Dates:
1902-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marianne Michael papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0453
Abstract
Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.
Dates:
1897-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0262
Abstract
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Myrle Olive Ward papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0078
Abstract
Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.
Dates:
1908-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives