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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
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice Kelley papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0485
Abstract
University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.
Dates:
1888-2005; 1923-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
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
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Dates:
ca. 1912-1999
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
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
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
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Dates:
1974-2001
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
Catharine King Herr diary
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:
1991
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
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
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
Cornelia Shrauger Day papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0328
Abstract
Educated in journalism and law. Washington, Iowa, resident active in YWCA, Planned Parenthood and UNICEF.
Dates:
1890-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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