wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Betty Boller oral history
Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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.
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.
Bonnie Kern papers
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.
Arrangement
Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Bradley Family papers
Correspondence and other papers of this nineteenth-century family that resided in the Hudson River Valley of New York.
Caroline Louise Hopwood Cook papers
A farm wife from the Oxford, Iowa area whose diaries record everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Catharine King Herr papers
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Catherine Lewis papers
Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.
Charla Boyle papers
"Toot's Eye View:" a memoir by Charla "Toot" Boyle about her mother, who moved to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1921.
Charlene "Mac" Eblen papers
Homemaker from Wichita, Kansas whose papers consist primarily of journals.
Charlotte Faxon papers
Teacher who traveled widely during the Civil War period.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Claudine Harris papers
Harris worked in radiation detection instrumentation. She was active in the Johnson County League of Women Voters and the Johnson County Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Cora Belle Pollock papers
Elementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Dale McCormick papers
Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.
Dallner and Petersen Family papers
Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.
David Nadler papers
Memoir of a Renate Nadler’s experience as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany written by her son, and an account of her son’s visit to her birthplace several decades following World War II.
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.