wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Vina Thorpe papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0253
Abstract
Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.
Dates:
1893-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Louise Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0027
Abstract
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Dates:
1925-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0262
Abstract
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edna Means papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract
Arrangement
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement
A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Dates:
1908-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives