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A. Louise Mays papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract
Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994....
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Abbie Romey papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract
Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Dates:
1891-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Abigail Van Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0912
Abstract
Iowa City resident who worked to preserve and restore Iowa City landmarks including the Old Capitol building.
Dates:
1968-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alberta Metcalf Kelly papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0176
Abstract
High school English teacher who was active in state and national Democratic Party politics during the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice Sophia Brant papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0170
Abstract
Diaries of this homemaker and mother who helped manage the family's funeral home in Oelwein.
Dates:
1901-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Anna Cochrane Lomas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0053
Abstract
Republican National Committeewoman in the 1950s and 1960s from Red Oak, Iowa.
Dates:
1917-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Marie Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0909
Abstract
Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.
Dates:
1925-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Dates:
1927-1983
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Dates:
1884-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Burrell Nichols papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0668
Abstract
Mother from Ames, Iowa who died of polio in 1955.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1944-1997; 1944-1949
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Coffin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0045
Abstract
City hostess and policewoman from Waterloo, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Leary papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0030
Abstract
Educator, author, collector of children's books.
Dates:
1878-1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
Betty Jean Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0153
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