The Dubuque NOW records date from 1973 to 1995 and measure 2.30 linear feet. The records are arranged in five series: Administrative records, Events, Issues, Other NOW chapters, Photographs, and Tamara Prenosil's later addition. The Dubuque NOW records focus on local feminist concerns and activities.

The Events series contains information about several of the special and on-going events that Dubuque NOW organized and participated in, such as the Take Back the Night March, an annual event to empower women and help them regain their right to be safe and confident in their communities at night.

The Issues series contains material pertaining to the issues that concerned Dubuque NOW. The group concentrated on passing the Equal Rights Amendment, increasing awareness of sexist language and attitudes in school and everyday life, and affirmative action. Dubuque NOW occasionally provided legal support through the legal defense fund, as in the cases of Susan Dolter and Karen Rolling, two Dubuque women who were fired from their teaching jobs at a private school because they became pregnant outside of marriage. The series also includes materials related to the "call to conscience" campaign launched by Dubuque NOW in 1986 in response to attempts by the group Voices for Life to intimidate NOW members and disrupt NOW's local activities.

The Photographs series contains black and white photographs of local and national ERA rallies and marches, and other chapter-sponsored events. Several contact sheets and sheets of negatives are also included in the collection.

The Tamara Prenosil series includes, early active member and secretary of National Organization for Women (NOW) Dubuque, Tamara Prenosil's, personal notes and speeches as well as records of several NOW Dubuque events and issues. The series consists of mock ups for the NOW Dubuque newsletters, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) materials, Media Watch documents, Just Kid Stuff, Take Back the Night, Bread and Roses, Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) awards, and 1982 NOW dinner event planning and advertising paraphernalia. Prenosil also amassed a large quantity of newspaper clippings, campaign brochures, and other flyers on women's issues such as welfare and women's equality, financial credit, rape, reproduction rights, abortion, the status of women, and gay and lesbian rights.