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Miriam Baker Nye papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0311
Abstract
Moville, Iowa, farm wife and columnist for the Sioux City Farm Journal Weekly.
Dates:
1938-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Nancy Drew Collection
Collection
Identifier: IWA0093
Abstract
An ongoing collection of materials related to the 1993 Nancy Drew Conference and Mildred Wirt Benson.
Dates:
1964-2020
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Nancy Veglahn Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0713
Abstract
Author of numerous books for young adults, many on science subjects. Collection includes manuscripts and correspondence about, among other titles, Follow the Golden Goose (1971) and Coils, Magnets and Rings (1976).
Dates:
1964-1976
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
National League of American Pen Women, Iowa City Branch records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0655
Abstract
The local branch was formed in 1963 and awards prize money to students.
Dates:
1964-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
National League of American Pen Women, Quad Cities Branch records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0656
Abstract
The National League of American Pen Women, Quad Cities Branch was established in 1976 to serve as an outlet for area women writers to communicate. The group organized scholarship competitions for high school student writers.
Dates:
1976-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
National League of American Pen Women, Waterloo-Cedar Rapids Branch records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0657
Nellie Booker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0421
Abstract
Newspaper reporter and author of poems and essays. The collection includes scrapbooks and photograph albums.
Dates:
1910-1919
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Oneita Griggs Fisher papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0855
Abstract
Newspaper columnist and writer from Washington County, Iowa, who was interested in conservation and historic preservation.
Dates:
1932-1967; 1965-1967; Other: Date acquired: 20010000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Osha Gray Davidson Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0588
Abstract
Free-lance journalist and author of Broken Heartland and Under Fire. Correspondence, research notes, and preliminary drafts of his writings.
Dates:
1987 -; Other: Date acquired: 19950000
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Papers of Ruth Suckow
Collection
Identifier: MsC0706
Overview
This collection is comprised of photographs, letters, paintings, and manuscripts of Ruth Suckow, family, and friends.
Dates:
1887-1988
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Paul Corey Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0585
Abstract
Writer Three Miles Square (1939), environmentalist, and animal activist. Correspondence, subject files, scrapbooks, and preliminary drafts of writings.
Dates:
1920 - 1992
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Paul Engle Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0514
Abstract
Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.
Dates:
1929-1988
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Pedro Lastra Collection of Letters from South American Writers
Collection
Identifier: msc0844
Abstract
Chilean essayist and poet. This collection contains over 900 letters to Lastra written by renowned South American writers.
Dates:
1954-2002
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Prentiss Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0060
Abstract
The family came to Iowa City in 1905 when Henry Prentiss established the Anatomy Department at the State University of Iowa.
Dates:
1891-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Richard Pike Bissell Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0565
Abstract
Typescript and holograph drafts, galley proofs, editor's notes, source material, etc., documenting the writings of this Dubuque novelist and author of 7 1/2 Cents (1953), the basis of the musical hit, The Pajama Game (1954, filmed 1957).
Dates:
1951-1973
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Robert Bernard Martin Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0655
Scope and Contents
This collection contains only the manuscript for With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward Fitzgerald.
Dates:
-
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Rosalie Braverman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0259
Abstract
Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.
Dates:
1929-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rose Mary Lawrence Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0641
Abstract
The manuscript of this national prize-winning short story by a twenty-two year old Davenport native.
Dates:
1949
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Ruth Cromer Weir papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0490
Abstract
Journalist and children's author from Union, Iowa.
Dates:
1926-1964
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ruth Laughlin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0185
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