wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract
Arrangement
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1958-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Gladys Moeller Lage papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0768
Abstract
Personal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.
Dates:
1912-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Laura Gibson Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0069
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1917-1983
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract
A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.
Dates:
1917-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marie Rumble papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Dates:
1890-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rosa Knutson Gangestad papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0614
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1867-1943
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives