wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Kate Martinson papers
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Maria Cano Martinez papers
Maria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.
Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers
Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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.
Jesse Virginia Antrim Perkins papers
Rural elementary school teacher and farm wife whose papers consist of three partial journals.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Thelma Petersen papers
Cora Belle Pollock papers
Elementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Mae Atkinson Robinson papers
Correspondence and diaries of an Iowa farm woman.
Marie Rumble papers
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Mary Jane Parsons papers
Reflections on her pioneer life from Rochester, New York to Dakota City, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Wilda Jean Schobert papers
Mary McDermott Shideler papers
Theologian, writer and lecturer whose work encompassed religious theology, philosophy and psychology.
Janet Shipton papers
Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Jennie Sies papers
Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.
Marcella Henley Smith papers
Memoir, Confetti, of her life in Albia, Iowa, correspondence, and journals of books read since 1959.
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Velma Skott Teeple memoir
Childhood memories of an Eastern Iowa teacher, writer, and farmwoman.
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.