Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 126
Abigail Van Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0912
Abstract
Iowa City resident who worked to preserve and restore Iowa City landmarks including the Old Capitol building.
Dates:
1968-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alberta Evelyn Swan Lehman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0367
Abstract
Correspondence and scrapbook of student years at Simpson Conservatory in Indianola, Iowa.
Dates:
1874-1932
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Anabeth Koob Voigts papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0694
Abstract
Materials relate to the efforts of Voigts to obtain the release of her sister, Kathryn Koob, who was held hostage in Iran between 1979 and 1981.
Dates:
1976-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Marie Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0909
Abstract
Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.
Dates:
1925-2000
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
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Burrell Nichols papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0668
Abstract
Mother from Ames, Iowa who died of polio in 1955.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1944-1997; 1944-1949
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernadine Solberg papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Dates:
1855-1980; 1940-1980
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
Bette Brooks Stone papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract
Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Beulah Wiederrecht papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0508
Abstract
Correspondence between Wapello farm woman and two Polish families after World War II.
Dates:
1946-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
C. Pauline Spencer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0627
Abstract
An outstanding athlete and the first woman to receive an athletic letter at the University of Iowa.She graduated in 1923.
Dates:
1920 -1985
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carl and Laura White papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0904
Abstract
Letters to Iowa resident Laura Birgen from Carl White who served in the U.S. Army in France during and after World War I.
Dates:
1918-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie Lindahl papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0638
Abstract
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Dates:
1875-2001
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
Cheryl Britton papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract
Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.
Dates:
1890-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Christie York papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0701
Abstract
University of Iowa graduate and laboratory assistant who was active in student government and served as a steward in AFSCME Local 12.
Dates:
1950-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cora Belle Pollock papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0706
Abstract
Elementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Dates:
1909-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cora Call Whitley papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0154
Abstract
Clubwoman and conservationist involved in the Council of National Defense Women's Committee during World War I.
Dates:
1916-1937
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Personal papers 116
- 20th century 103
- 2001-2010 55
- Families 48
- Diaries 45
- Iowa City (Iowa) 35
- Scrapbooks 35
- Cultural artifacts 34
- Oral histories 32
- College students 28
- Speeches 26
- Teachers 26
- Rural women 25
- Women in agriculture 25
- Memoirs 22
- Video recordings 22
- Autobiographies 21
- Sound recordings 20
- Farm life 18
- Photograph albums 17
- Teaching 17
- World War, 1939-1945 17
- Women -- 19th century 16
- Women -- Political activity 15
- Women lawyers 15
- 1991-2000 14
- Women and War 14
- Yearbooks 14
- 1971-1980 13
- 1981-1990 13
- Farmers 13
- Iowa 13
- Marriage 12
- Slides (photographs) 12
- Voyages and travels 12
- Women in education 12
- Rural families 11
- Community activists 10
- Drawings (visual works) 10
- High school students 10
- Homemakers 10
- Authors 9
- Autograph albums 9
- Volunteers 9
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 9
- 2011-2020 8
- College teachers 8
- Family papers 8
- African American women 7
- African American women -- Iowa 7
- Des Moines (Iowa) 7
- Immigrant families 7
- Journalists 7
- Political campaigns 7
- Political participation 7
- Postcards 7
- Women in journalism 7
- 1941-1950 6
- 1961-1970 6
- Ames (Iowa) 6
- Civil rights 6
- Immigrants 6
- Legislators 6
- Nurses 6
- Posters 6
- Soldiers 6
- Women in church work 6
- Women in public life 6
- World War, 1914-1918 6
- 1951-1960 5
- Businesswomen 5
- Christmas cards 5
- Courtship 5
- Europe 5
- Pacifism 5
- Peace 5
- Political activists 5
- Social participation 5
- Travelers 5
- Women -- Societies and clubs 5
- Women in charitable work 5
- Women in higher education 5
- Working class women 5
- 1901-1910 4
- 19th century 4
- Artists 4
- Awards 4
- California 4
- Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 4
- Chicago (Ill.) 4
- City council members 4
- Clubs 4
- Divorce 4
- Frontier and pioneer life 4
- Hispanic American families 4
- Hispanic American women 4
- Japan 4 ∧ less
- Language
- English 52
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Names
- State University of Iowa 22
- University of Iowa 10
- Republican Party (Iowa) 5
- White family 4
- Grinnell College 3
- Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 3
- Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 3
- Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 3
- University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 3
- American National Red Cross 2
- Daughters of the American Revolution 2
- Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 2
- Ellsworth Community College (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 2
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission 2
- Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 2
- Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 2
- Koob, Kathryn 2
- League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Iowa 2
- Mason, Kären 2
- Miller family 2
- Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays 2
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America 2
- Republican National Committee (U.S.) 2
- Republican National Convention 2
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
- Shrauger family 2
- Shrauger, Harold, Sr. 2
- University of Iowa. Department of History 2
- White, Stanley V., 1901- 2
- Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
- Alternative Living for the Aging (Organization) 1
- American Association for the United Nations 1
- American Association of University Women 1
- American Film Institute 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- American Theological Society 1
- American Women in Radio and Television Inc. 1
- Ames Middle School (Ames, Iowa) 1
- Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
- Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
- Atlantic Refining Company 1
- Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967 1
- Attlee, Felicity 1
- Attlee, Martin 1
- Attlee, Violet 1
- Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
- Baker, Carl 1
- Barnes, Irston R. 1
- Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
- Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
- Beier, Eileen 1
- Beisswenger family 1
- Beisswenger, Don 1
- Beisswenger, Joyce, 1930-2002 1
- Beisswenger, Judy 1
- Birgen family 1
- Birgen, Lorinda "Laura", 1898-1963 1
- Birgen, Martina 1
- Bohnen, Salesian Father Laurent 1
- Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
- Bourret, Joan Liffring-Zug, 1929- 1
- Brain family 1
- Briggs, John Ely, -1952 1
- Briggs, Nellie Upham, -1973 1
- Briggs, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1918-2004 1
- Briggs, Wilbur 1
- Brink, Christine 1
- Britton family 1
- Britton, Cheryl, 1910-2003 1
- Britton, Chester 1
- Broer, Bethany 1
- Broer, Faye York 1
- Broer, Jacob 1
- Broer, Kyle 1
- Brown, Bill 1
- Brown, Harriet Connor, 1872- 1
- Brown, Maria Dean Foster, 1827-1929 1
- Burns, Jean I. 1
- Burns, John 1
- Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
- Bush, George, 1924- 1
- Camp Courageous of Iowa 1
- Campbell, Captain William J. 1
- Cargill Corn Starch and Syrup (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
- Center for Population Options (U.S.) 1
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1
- Chamber of Commerce (Studio City, Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Chicago Theological Seminary 1
- Child Development Club (Manchester, Iowa) 1
- Child, Charlotte Joiner 1
- Children Now (Organization) 1
- Childress, Elizabeth 1
- Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
- Church of the Brethren Conference 1
- City High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
- Clark family 1
- Clark, Dene 1
- Clark, Dorothy, 1900-1986 1
- Clark, Esther Treptow, 1905-2004 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more