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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
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
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
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
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
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 Kelley papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0485
Abstract
University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.
Dates:
1888-2005; 1923-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice Kipp papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Dates:
1986-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1897-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Ames Farnham papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Abstract
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1896
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Anabeth Koob Voigts papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0694
Abstract
Materials relate to the efforts of Voigts to obtain the release of her sister, Kathryn Koob, who was held hostage in Iran between 1979 and 1981.
Dates:
1976-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract
Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
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 Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
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
Bess Newcomer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0663
Abstract
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Dates:
1936-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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