wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Alice McMurry papers
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
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.
Gladys Talcott Rife papers
Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.
Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers
Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Henrietta Ruff papers
Amana, Iowa, school teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Laura Gibson Smith papers
Casey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.
Lucy Van Voorhis White papers
Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.
Marian Farquhar papers
Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.
Martha Wahl papers
Mathematician and teacher who patented educational toys for teaching mathematics to children.
Myrle Olive Ward papers
Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.
Nellie M. Gebers papers
Artist, writer and teacher from Ira, Iowa who studied with Grant Wood.