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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
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
Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Dates:
1884-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bertha Hedges papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0846
Abstract
A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.
Dates:
1870-2014
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
Bowersox and Osborn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0500
Abstract
The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.
Dates:
1861-2002; 1888-1945
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Burchard Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0800
Abstract
The family lived in New York state until 1910 when they moved to Iowa. The diaries are from several generations.
Dates:
1862-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0687
Abstract
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Dates:
1913-1981
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
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
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1958-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Denise O'Brien papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0156
Abstract
Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.
Dates:
1964-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Donna Schmidt papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0856
Abstract
University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa
Dates:
1938-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dorothy Fox Wurster papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0700
Abstract
Mahaska County farm girl who won a blue ribbon in the Mahaska County's Boys' 4-H.
Dates:
1942-1987
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Buckwalter papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0916
Abstract
Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.
Dates:
1817-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
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
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
Dates:
1856-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Emmylou Krohn papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0634
Abstract
Teacher, columnist, and textbook author from Council Bluffs area.
Dates:
1940-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Esther Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0880
Abstract
Home economics professor raised on a farm in Lacey, Iowa.
Dates:
1911-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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