wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Bernice Zimmer papers
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
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.
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Jean Kern papers
Professor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.
Lela Powers Briggs papers
An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.
Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
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.
Marie Rumble papers
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.
Trimble Family papers
Reminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith and Marie Jeffers about their mother, Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Vina Thorpe papers
Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.
Zelda Babcock Wolfe papers
Riceville, Iowa, mother, homemaker, and teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.