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League of Women Voters of Johnson County records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0021
Abstract
Local branch of the national non-partisan League of Women Voters which seeks to promote political responsibility through educating and informing the public on selected governmental issues and promoting action on those issues.
Dates:
1920-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Des Moines records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0243
Abstract
This non-partisan group studied and acted upon the many local issues including the following: the council-manager form of city government, home rule for local and county government, reapportionment of legislative districts of the Iowa General Assembly, desegregation and integration of Des Moines public schools, and the need for affordable housing in the community.
Dates:
1936-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Muscatine records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0636
Abstract
During the 1980s and 1990s, the LWV of Muscatine conducted a number of studies on Muscatine county issues, including the ambulance 911 system, law enforcement, county courthouse space needs, alternative forms of county government, housing, education, land use, hazardous waste, local option tax, the U.S. Highway 61 Bypass, and the Muscatine fire station.
Dates:
1943-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lileah Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0256
Abstract
Professional volunteer active in several arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations in Cedar Rapids.
Dates:
1961-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Linda Kinney Neuman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0532
Abstract
Served for over twenty years in the Iowa judiciary and was the first woman to be appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Dates:
1975-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Linda Yanney papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0413
Abstract
Iowa City feminist and champion of LGBT rights.
Dates:
1948-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lois Boulware papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0352
Abstract
Physician in the University of Iowa Student Health Department, who established the Patient Advocacy Program at University Hospitals after marrying and having a child.
Dates:
1977-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lois Laughlin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0184
Abstract
Papers of an activist from West Branch, Iowa, include correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to her husband's status as a conscientious objector.
Dates:
1939-2007
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lolly Eggers papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0806
Abstract
Papers related to the social activism and career of librarian Lolly Eggers.
Dates:
1963-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lonabelle Kaplan Spencer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0160
Abstract
American Association of University Women member and advocate for women's issues including dual listings for married women in Iowa telephone directories.
Arrangement 1997 ACCESSION Boxes 1-11
2007 ACCESSION Boxes 12-41
2008 ACCESSION Boxes 42-65
Arrangement 1997 ACCESSION Boxes 1-11
2007 ACCESSION Boxes 12-41
2008 ACCESSION Boxes 42-65
Dates:
1931-2007; 1975-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lori Schieffer papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0374
Abstract
Includes information on the sale of Girl Scout cookies in Muscatine, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1997-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Louise Goldman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0307
Abstract
Public servant, feminist activist, and poet from Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1933-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lucia Thorne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0894
Abstract
Professional singer from Clinton, Iowa who was a featured vocalist on WHO Des Moines radio for fifteen years in the 1940s and 1950s.
Dates:
1943-1957
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Magdalen Meade papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0648
Abstract
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Dates:
1891-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Davis Collison papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0083
Abstract
Member of the Iowa Board of Regents who was also active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign of 1982.
Dates:
1937-1990
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0369
Abstract
Farm woman, teacher, and recipient of the Master Farm Homemaker award in 1970.
Dates:
1929-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Keyes papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0038
Abstract
Professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and nationally recognized leader in the field of historic preservation.
Dates:
1907-2015
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Talcott Boedeker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0401
Abstract
Teacher with Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1941-1963; vocational counselor and tourism advocate.
Dates:
1937-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marian Farquhar papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0064
Abstract
Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.
Dates:
1902-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marjorie Elizabeth Lyford papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0051
Abstract
Public health and visiting nurse who later taught at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
Dates:
1865-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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