wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract
In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1897-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1998-1999
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0687
Abstract
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Carrie V. Talcott papers
Catharine King Herr diary
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Catharine King Herr diary
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1958-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0449
Abstract
Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1982-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Edith Sprout memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0682
Abstract
Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Edith Sprout memoir
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0465
Abstract
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
Abstract
Farm magazine writer.
Dates:
1904-1960
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1856-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract
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.
Arrangement One folder shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993
Faye T. Wookey papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0699
Abstract
Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Faye T. Wookey papers
Gladys Conn papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0225
Abstract
Social worker and State University of Iowa graduate from Marne, Iowa, whose papers include diaries and family correspondence.
Dates:
1868-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Gladys Conn papers
Gladys Homan papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0261
Abstract
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
Dates:
1871-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Gladys Homan papers
Gladys Moeller Lage papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0768
Abstract
Personal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.
Dates:
1912-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Gladys Moeller Lage papers
Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0394
Abstract
Farmwoman, basketball player on Newhall High School girls state championship team in 1927.
Dates:
1892-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers
Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women
Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract
Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.
Dates:
1983-1992
Inez Christen papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0469
Abstract
Transcribed diaries of a Northeast Iowa hired girl, farmwoman and mother.
Dates:
1922-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Inez Christen papers
Jeanne Van Kley papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0388
Abstract
Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1987-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Jeanne Van Kley papers