wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Marcella Henley Smith papers
Memoir, Confetti, of her life in Albia, Iowa, correspondence, and journals of books read since 1959.
Edith Sprout memoir
Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers
Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.
Velma Skott Teeple memoir
Childhood memories of an Eastern Iowa teacher, writer, and farmwoman.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Rosemary Tharp papers
Cedar Falls native who served in the WAVES during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Thornhill papers
Ida Grove, Iowa mother and homemaker who worked at a hatchery and at a hamburger shop before marrying.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
McCown Family Papers
Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.
Nancy Seiberling papers
Environmental activist who co-founded Project GREEN, a city planning and beautification initiative in Iowa City.
Charla Boyle papers
"Toot's Eye View:" a memoir by Charla "Toot" Boyle about her mother, who moved to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1921.
Effie "Hadley" Brindle papers
Farm wife in Hardin County, Iowa, whose husband served in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1941 and 1943.
Mary Ann Dunn Leonard papers
Diary of two years in the life of a Cedar County farm woman.
Kay Hata papers
Oral history. Japanese-American nurse who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Judith Yarger Hull papers
Elise Boddicker Schallau papers
Memoir, 1998, 58pp. Schallau reflects on farming and family life in two Iowa Counties – Benton and Iowa.
Jennifer Baum papers
Iowa City woman who lived and worked in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Maranda Cline Papers
Consists of a transcribed diary that includes daily entries describing family life near Hills, Iowa from 1891 to 1907.