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Alice Kipp papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Dates:
1986-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
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
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 Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0780
Abstract
Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Dates:
1850-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edna Means papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Dates:
1908-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Miller Richards papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0737
Abstract
Politician and women's rights activist from Red Oak, Iowa,who ran for Iowa state representative in 1966.
Dates:
1929-1996
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
Georgana Falb Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0435
Abstract
A participant in the Camp Fire Girls between 1940 and 1954; materials include correspondence, scrapbooks and a memoir.
Dates:
1939-2002
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
Hedy Hustedde papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0879
Abstract
Homemaker and librarian who lived abroad in Berlin for four years during the 1980s.
Dates:
1890-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jo Ann Zimmerman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0351
Abstract
Elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1982 and in 1986, she became the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.
Dates:
1958-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Joann Orr papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0807
Abstract
State senator from 1972 to 1980 from Grinnell, Iowa.
Dates:
1969-2017
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Joann Weldon papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0521
Abstract
A resident of Davenport from 1962, Weldon publicly acknowledged her lesbian identity during the early 1950s.
Dates:
1920-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Kathryn W. Hansen
Collection
Identifier: IWA0859
Abstract
Photographer, Peace Corps volunteer, and United Nations Association leader and member.
Dates:
1959-2012; Other: Date acquired: 20100000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Linda Kinney Neuman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0532
Abstract
Served for over twenty years in the Iowa judiciary and was the first woman to be appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Dates:
1975-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Louise Rosenfield Noun papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0035
Abstract
Feminist and civil liberties activist from Des Moines, Iowa, who was also an art collector, author, and co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Dates:
1926-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mae Irene Ludemann papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0641
Abstract
High school history teacher who traveled to Europe in 1929 and recorded her experiences in a diary.
Dates:
1926-1943
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Magdalen Meade papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0648
Abstract
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Dates:
1891-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Keyes papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0038
Abstract
Professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and nationally recognized leader in the field of historic preservation.
Dates:
1907-2015
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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