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Adelia St. John Gates papers
Collection — other: Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract
Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1863-1865?; Other: Date acquired: 2008-05-20
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Dates:
ca. 1912-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catharine King Herr papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1976-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ellen Hanson Mason papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0820
Abstract
Diaries chronicle Ellen Hanson Mason's life on the family farm in rural northeast Iowa.
Dates:
1929-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Esther Thornhill papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0254
Abstract
Ida Grove, Iowa mother and homemaker who worked at a hatchery and at a hamburger shop before marrying.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1956-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Dates:
1913-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Georgia Peeso Haygarth papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0524
Abstract
Includes diaries of Georgia Peeso Haygarth of Spencer, Iowa and of her father, Melvin Moses Peeso, who was a logger in California.
Dates:
1912-1915
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Hedwig Schmidt papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA1044
Overview
Resident of Clayton County, Iowa, whose diaries from the 1960’s to the 1980’s related to rural life.
Dates:
1961-2015
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Hedy Hustedde papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0879
Abstract
Homemaker and librarian who lived abroad in Berlin for four years during the 1980s.
Dates:
1890-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women
Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract
Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.
Dates:
1984-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa Byington Reed papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0555
Abstract
The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.
Dates:
1872-1936
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1987-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jennie Sies papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0496
Abstract
Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.
Dates:
1880
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Kate Martinson papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0084
Abstract
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1872-1944
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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