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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
Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract
In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1977
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
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
Alta Martin papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0353
Abstract
Homemaker and mother of five who received her private pilot license in 1963.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1963-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anita Crawford papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0599
Abstract
Buchanan County farmwoman who was active in the Farm Bureau and county historical society.
Dates:
1939-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ann Larimer Papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0107
Abstract
Queen City, Iowa, resident who wrote to her husband while he was serving in the Civil War.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
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
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
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
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
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Bessie Wilkerson papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0320
Abstract
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Betty Boller oral history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0290
Abstract
Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Beulah Wiederrecht papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0508
Abstract
Correspondence between Wapello farm woman and two Polish families after World War II.
Dates:
1946-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Bridging the Generations Exhibit: Master Farm Homemakers Guild records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0589
Abstract
This exhibit was created by the Master Farm Homemakers Guild to publicize their history in Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1992-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie Kelly Beatty papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0127
Abstract
Young woman who came to Hancock County, Iowa in 1868; her experiences were recorded in the book, A Prairie Rose, by Bertha E. Bush.
Dates:
1874-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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