wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Bernice Zimmer papers
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Esther Sietmann Warner Dendel papers
Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers
Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Inés García papers
Mexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.
Madge Clark Girard papers
Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Mae Atkinson Robinson papers
Correspondence and diaries of an Iowa farm woman.
Mary Hagen memoir
Memoir describing life on a family farm near Manly, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
McCown Family Papers
Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.
Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.