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A. Louise Mays papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract
Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994....
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Ames Farnham papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Abstract
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1896
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Arthur W. Spivey Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0150.05
Abstract
Audio tape memoirs of Chautauqua and a manuscript relating to the work week of a Chautauqua crewman and crew chief.
Dates:
1925-1926; 1977
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
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
Beverly Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0148
Abstract
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Dates:
1856-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bonnie Kern papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Dates:
1945 - 2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bonnie Love papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0860
Overview
Oral history of donor Bonnie Love’s mother-in-law, Annabelle Bowman; home movies and writing by Love’s mother, Kathryn Lyman Love.
Dates:
1948-2012
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
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0217
Abstract
Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.
Dates:
1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Charlotte Faxon papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0086
Abstract
Teacher who traveled widely during the Civil War period.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1864-1867
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Christine Dutson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Dates:
1954 - 2002
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
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