Catherine Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0217
The Catherine Lewis papers date from 1995 and measure 2 linear inches and nine audiocassettes. They include field reports and demographic information on the people Lewis interviewed, as well as eleven interviews on audiocassette tape. The taped interviews are with softball players, a rural women's chorus leader, and members of a quilters' guild.
Dates
- 1995
Creator
- Lewis, Catherine (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Users of the collection must review restrictions on use of interviews related to women's softball.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Extent
2.00 linear inches
Nine audiocassettes [AC344-AC352]. other_unmapped
Abstract
Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.
Biographical / Historical
During the summer of 1995 Catherine Lewis, an American Studies graduate student at the University of Iowa, completed an oral history project for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife and the Iowa Festival of Iowa Folklife for the Sesquicentennial celebration in 1996. She interviewed members of women's softball teams, quilters, 4-H members, hand spinners, and a chain-saw artist about how their art or sport related to their life, and community, in Iowa.
Method of Acquisition
The papers (donor no. 301) were donated by Catherine Lewis in 1995.
Other Descriptive Information
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/LewisCatherine.htm#content
- 1991-2000
- 4-H clubs
- Ackeman, Karen
- Archives (groupings)
- Artists
- Artists and community
- Buckley, Susan C.
- Cadoret, Jeanne
- Clark, M. Maeve
- Edle, Jerry
- Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001
- Girls' and Women's Sports
- Greazel, Shana
- Hemann, Brian
- Howe, Maureen
- Iowa
- Jack, Jill, 1957-
- Janz, Kathleen
- Lacina, Kim
- Lewis, Catherine
- Mishler, Laura
- Mishler, Margaret
- Musicians
- Oral histories
- Personal papers
- Photographs
- Pickup, Sandra
- Quilting
- Quiltmakers
- Rogers, Opal
- Roseman, Dennis
- Roseman, Robin
- Rural women
- Softball for women
- Softball players
- Sound recordings
- Taylor, Leslie
- Twentieth century
- Watson, Ann
- Women -- Societies and clubs
- Women and the arts
- Woodin, Marilyn
Creator
- Lewis, Catherine (Person)
- Author
- Rachel Bohlmann, 1996.
- Language of description
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository
Contact:
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5068
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-women@uiowa.edu
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5068
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-women@uiowa.edu