Mary Baker Skinner papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0867
Scope and Contents
The Mary Baker Skinner papers comprise of Skinner’s poetry, and a 2012 article from the Des Moines Register about Skinner and other former inmates from the state reform school. The collection also includes another article from Iowa Heritage Illustrated about an 1899 riot at the Mitchellville Girls School.
Shelved separately, the Iowa Training School for Girls newsletters, including The Tattler, contain articles and poems by women inmates at the school from 1960 to 1973.
Dates
- (1998 - 2012)
Creator
- Skinner, Mary Baker, 1951- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The papers are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Mary Baker Skinner retains copyright to her poetry.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Baker was born c. 1951. In 1965, when she was fourteen, she was sent to the Iowa Training School for Girls in Mitchellville after being convicted of assault and battery for fighting at school. She is one of many women who recall the abuse they suffered at the Mitchellville facility; this abuse became the subject of a legislative inquiry in the 1960s by State Representative and juvenile justice advocate Minnette Doderer.
Extent
.5 linear inches
Overview
Writings by a former inmate of the Iowa Training School for Girls in Mitchellville.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers (donor no. 1325) were donated by Mary Baker Skinner in 2012.
Creator
- Skinner, Mary Baker, 1951- (Person)
- Title
- Mary Baker Skinner papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Margaret Halterman, 2013; Annie Tunnicliff, 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- 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