wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Judy Herron Hoit papers
Disability access and awareness advocate and 1996 Ms. Wheelchair Iowa winner.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ida "Belle" Bandfield Holden papers
Schoolteacher in the Waterloo area at the turn of the century.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project
Oral histories and transcripts. Collection of 77 oral histories of Iowa women artists conducted by Jane Robinette in 1998-1999.
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Rosa Knutson Gangestad papers
The daughter of Norwegian immigrants who came to Humboldt County, Iowa in 1872. Reflections on pioneer life through handwritten stories and letters for her grandchildren.
Nellie M. Gebers papers
Artist, writer and teacher from Ira, Iowa who studied with Grant Wood.
Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa
Oral history project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
Lorraine Hansen papers
Diaries of a homemaker and bakery owner from Manson, Iowa
Frances Hawthorne papers
Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.
Gladys Homan papers
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
Lois Laughlin papers
Papers of an activist from West Branch, Iowa, include correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to her husband's status as a conscientious objector.
Ruth Laughlin papers
Esther Sietmann Warner Dendel papers
Lois Thor papers
Iowa State University student and braille typist originally from Clinton, Iowa.
Madgetta Dungy papers
First Black woman to graduate from Cornell College and administrator at the University of Iowa whose dissertation focused on the experiences of African American graduate students.
Catherine Lewis papers
Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.
Louise Liers papers
World War I Army nurse from Clayton, Iowa.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Mae Irene Ludemann papers
High school history teacher who traveled to Europe in 1929 and recorded her experiences in a diary.
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.