wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Georgia Peeso Haygarth papers
Includes diaries of Georgia Peeso Haygarth of Spencer, Iowa and of her father, Melvin Moses Peeso, who was a logger in California.
Gladys Homan papers
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
Gladys Moeller Lage papers
Personal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.
Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers
Farmwoman, basketball player on Newhall High School girls state championship team in 1927.
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.
Iowa Byington Reed papers
The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.
Janet Shipton papers
Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Jean Kern papers
Professor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.
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.
Judy Klemesrud papers
Nationally recognized journalist whose reporting included coverage of the women's movement.
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.
Katherine Mull Falvey Zastrow papers
State representative from 1958 to 1964 and the first woman elected to Charles City Council, 1970.
Lela Powers Briggs papers
An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.
Lois Laughlin papers
Papers of an activist from West Branch, Iowa, include correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to her husband's status as a conscientious objector.
Lucy Van Voorhis White papers
Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.
Mae Atkinson Robinson papers
Correspondence and diaries of an Iowa farm woman.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
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.