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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
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Annette Cech papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0593
Abstract
Iowa City housewife and mother whose son, Thomas Cech, won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Annette Lingelbach papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0639
Abstract
Journalist who wrote for Des Moines and Waterloo newspapers.
Dates:
1937-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Arlene Morris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0276
Abstract
Clinical psychologist and University of Iowa alumna who was a member of the Des Moines Know Your Neighbor panel.
Dates:
1946-1996; 1961-1966
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Azalia Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0650
Abstract
Mitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.
Dates:
1911-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Flanagan papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0611
Abstract
Reporter, women's page editor, and columnist for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune from the 1940s until 1988.
Dates:
1950-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0194
Abstract
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
Dates:
1943-1948
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Betty Jean Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0153
Blanca Vasquez Gaines papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0899
Abstract
Puerto Rican woman who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carol Hodne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0488
Abstract
Iowa farm activist who served as the first executive director of the North American Farm Alliance during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Dates:
1921-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carolyn "Kay" Bucksbaum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0591
Abstract
Civic activist involved in the Jewish community, the Des Moines symphony, the League of Women Voters, and the Proteus Club.
Dates:
1949-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991; 1942-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Charlene Conklin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0004
Abstract
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives,1967 to 1969, and the Iowa Senate, 1969 to 1973.
Dates:
1954-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Chauncey Depew Club records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0725
Abstract
Des Moines women's club formed in 1897 to promote efficiency in extemporaneous speaking.
Dates:
1913-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cheryl Britton papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract
Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.
Dates:
1890-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cynthia Grant Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA1182
Overview
Research materials and correspondence of a historian of the Unitarian church’s female ministers in Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dates:
(1973-1994)
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0113
Abstract
Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.
Dates:
1898-2016
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Des Moines Women's Club records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0858
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