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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
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0384
Abstract
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0226
Abstract
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Dates:
1905-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Helene Scriabine papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0080
Abstract
Author and Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Iowa, who emmigrated to the United States after surviving the siege of Leningrad in 1941.
Dates:
1940-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lillian Ronk papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0503
Abstract
West Central Iowa farmwoman known locally as 'the flower lady.'
Dates:
1966-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract
A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.
Dates:
1917-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Langland Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0816
Abstract
Nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Dates:
1925-1972
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marianne Michael papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0453
Abstract
Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.
Dates:
1897-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marie Rumble papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Dates:
1890-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Frances Reger-Wilkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0501
Abstract
Social worker who worked for the American National Red Cross during and after World War II.
Dates:
1942-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ortha P. Neff papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Paul Mitchell papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0847
Abstract
An edited copy of Frances Mitchell's diary entries chronicling her journey from Seattle, Washington to Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
Dates:
1948-2007
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rosemary Tharp papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0114
Abstract
Cedar Falls native who served in the WAVES during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1940-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0489
Abstract
Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.
Dates:
1915-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Virginia Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0058
Abstract
Community activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.
Dates:
1829-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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