Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 17 of 17

Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract

In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1977

Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.

Dates: 1986-2006

Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0465
Abstract

Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991

Ernella Van Horn papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0724
Abstract

The second of four generations of women in her family to play basketball in Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993-2001

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Eva Donelson Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0355
Abstract

Native of Ogden, Iowa, and professor of nutrition at colleges in the United States and Brazil.

Dates: 1994

Faye T. Wookey papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0699
Abstract

Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2000

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0244
Abstract

Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.

Dates: 1983-2007

Jeanne Van Kley papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0388
Abstract

Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-1998

June Lundy Boyd papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0479
Abstract

Memoir describes growing up and teaching in southwestern Iowa, Lundy's wartime wedding and subsequent life in Knoxville, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2002

Lela Aurilla Yost memoir

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0325
Abstract

Schoolteacher and farm wife near Mason City and Kesley, Iowa.



Arrangement

Shelved in printer works, CT 275.Y48 AC 1990

Dates: 1995

Lois McIntyre Schutte papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0678
Abstract

Two memoirs of an Iowa farm woman.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991-1993

Madge Clark Girard papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract

Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1991

Marie Giddings papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0426
Abstract

Detailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1980

Nancy De Vries Blom papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0387
Abstract

Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982

Dates: 1982-1986

Ruth Perkins Messenger Papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0516
Abstract

Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2000

Velma Skott Teeple memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0688
Abstract

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



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2001

Filtered By

  • Subject: Memoirs X
  • Subject: Twentieth century X
  • Subject: Women in agriculture X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Autobiographies 14
Diaries 14
Farm life 14
Oral histories 14
Rural girls 11
∨ more
1991-2000 10
Families 10
Rural families 10
Farmers 9
Teachers 9
Homemakers 8
Rural schools 8
Teaching 8
2001-2010 7
1981-1990 6
Archives (groupings) 6
Personal papers 6
Photographs 6
Depressions -- 1929 5
Stock Market Crash, 1929 5
Iowa 4
Rural churches 4
Rural conditions 4
Agriculture 3
Country life 3
1971-1980 2
College students 2
Correspondence 2
Housekeeping 2
Immigrant families 2
Marriage 2
Nineteenth century 2
Ogden (Iowa) 2
Parenthood 2
Women in education 2
Agricultural implements 1
Ames (Iowa) 1
Artists 1
Authors 1
Baldwin (Iowa) 1
Basketball 1
Basketball for girls 1
Basketball for women 1
Basketball players 1
Blairstown (Iowa) 1
Boone County (Iowa) 1
Brazil 1
Buckhorn (Iowa (Extinct city)) 1
Butler County (Iowa) 1
Castana (Iowa) 1
Chautauquas 1
Child rearing 1
Christmas service 1
College teachers 1
College teaching 1
Community life 1
Courtship 1
Cultural artifacts 1
Danish American women 1
Davenport (Iowa) 1
Diseases 1
Doon (Iowa) 1
Dubuque County (Iowa) 1
Dutch American women 1
Farm management 1
Fayette County (Iowa) 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
German Americans 1
Handicraft 1
High school students 1
Historians 1
Home economics 1
Hospital ward clerks 1
Immigrants 1
Knoxville (Iowa) 1
Kossuth County (Iowa) 1
Lemmon (S.D.) 1
Local history 1
Mason City (Iowa) 1
Monmouth (Iowa) 1
Monroe County (Iowa) 1
Montgomery County (Iowa) 1
Nebraska 1
Netherlands 1
Norway (Iowa) 1
Nutrition 1
Ocheyedan (Iowa) 1
Paper work 1
Rationing 1
Recreation 1
Red Oak (Iowa) 1
Rural health services 1
School sports for girls 1
Sex role 1
Sioux County (Iowa) 1
Social participation 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Balster, Stella Werden 1
Basgall, Carol 1
Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Brinton, Ada Mae Brown, 1891-1988 1