Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.

Childhood memories of an Eastern Iowa teacher, writer, and farmwoman.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Reading club organized in 1901.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Chemical engineer who grew up on a farm near Manchester, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa from 1976 – 1980.

Sixth grade class assignment.

Twin sisters from Victor, Iowa who had social work careers in rural communities and settlement houses

Diary of two years in the life of a Cedar County farm woman.

Memoir, 1998, 58pp. Schallau reflects on farming and family life in two Iowa Counties – Benton and Iowa.

Black and white photograph of women gardening in Main Amana, taken by Kathy Wachel, ca 1975.

Reminiscence, "My Life as a Farm Woman," by Doris Wessel.

A memoir of the Yelland family, written by Annie Allen Yelland, Georgia Yelland Nelson, and Isabel Yelland Denham.

Sheet music for Farm Bureau song, “Let Us Farmers Stand United for our Rights,” written by Julia Montange of Woodbury County, Iowa, in 1926. Sheet music, “We Won’t Have to Sell the Farm,” lyrics by Al Bryan, 1933.

Minutes, programs, and scrapbooks of the Mount Vernon Friendship Club of Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Handwritten letters, local business materials, and newspaper clippings illustrating Iowa in the early to mid-twentieth century.

A farm wife from the Oxford, Iowa area whose diaries record everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A quilt historian and genealogist who collected the papers of several generations of her family’s history in Iowa.

Nutrition education newsletter.

Oral history interviews with African American women who worked in domestic service in the South before moving to Iowa.