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wa00017. Women and Religion

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00017
Papers and records of religious organizations, missionaries, clergy, women religious and other women whose spirituality was central to their work.

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Ortha Lane papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0747
Abstract

1917 graduate of Cornell College, Iowa, who served as a missionary in the Changchao District of Northern China.

Dates: 1921-1932

Martha Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0235
Abstract

Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.

Dates: 1939-2000

Sister Mary Dominica Urbany papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0692
Abstract

Member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and a missionary to China from 1928 to 1936.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1866-1936

Sisters of St. Francis (Bancroft, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0120
Abstract

Religious order that helped to establish a school in St. John's Parish, Bancroft, Iowa in 1900.

Dates: 1900-1992

Edythe Stirlen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0139
Abstract

One of the first ordained female ministers in the Midwest whose sermons were broadcast on radio stations KFNF and KMA for over sixty years in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Dates: 1930-1987

Charlotte Shivvers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0896
Abstract

Unitarian Universalist minister and daughter of Iowa State Senator Vera Shivvers.

Dates: 1940-2015

Women of the Wartburg Theological Seminary collection

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0891
Abstract

Lutheran Seminary in Dubuque which began admitting women in 1970.

Dates: 1983-2009

Anna Marie Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0909
Abstract

Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.

Dates: 1925-2000

Josephine Marie Pletscher papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0913
Abstract

Artist, librarian, and student of Corita Kent.

Dates: 1922-2015

Sister Irene Muñoz papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0923
Abstract

Mexican American activist and nurse who advocated for the rights of migrant workers and Latino families in Iowa.

Dates: 1973-2006

Lucille Burdette papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0937
Abstract

Nurse who served as a missionary and cared for patients with leprosy in Nigeria from 1948-1971.

Dates: 2009

Myrtle Hinkhouse papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0955
Abstract

A medical missionary from West Liberty who worked in China in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1875-2015

Agudas Achim Sisterhood records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1020
Abstract

Records of the women’s organization activities associated with an Iowa City synagogue.

Dates: 1952-2015

Willing Workers Society of Salem Reformed Church (Lyon County) records

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1093
Dates: 1996

Sister Maria Luisa "Molly" Muñoz papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1128
Abstract

Chicana nun, nurse, and activist that worked closely with migrant workers and families.

Dates: 1972 - 2006

Shaare Zion Synagogue / Mt. Sinai Temple records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1041
Abstract

Records of Sioux City’s Shaare Zion Synagogue, Mt. Sinai Temple, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Jewish Federation of Sioux City.

Dates: 1901-2015

Cynthia Grant Tucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1182
Abstract

Research materials and correspondence of a historian of the Unitarian church’s female ministers in Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dates: 1973-1994

Rev. William T. O'Connor papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1184
Abstract

Roman Catholic priest and labor rights advocate who taught at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa.

Dates: 1922-1984

Leona Ruppel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1236
Abstract

Teacher and Methodist missionary in Bombay [Mumbai], India throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: 1917-1958

Charlotte P. "Sherry" Hutchison papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1296
Abstract

Peace and human rights activist from Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1973 - 2004