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Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Dates:
1927-1983
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
Ernest Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract
Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Dates:
1910-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Estefania Joyce Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0569
Abstract
Family photographs taken in Iowa, Alabama, and Mexico.
Dates:
1902-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Dates:
1913-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Irene and Jose Guzman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0870
Abstract
Photographs and slides pertaining to the Guzman's role in the Migrant Action Program in Mason City, Iowa.
Arrangement Photographs and slides available in the Iowa Digital Library.
Arrangement Photographs and slides available in the Iowa Digital Library.
Dates:
1963-1979
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0733
Overview
The members of Davenport LULAC Council 10 engaged in a wide range of social and political activities including annual fiestas, civil rights and fair housing.
Dates:
1932-2019
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0886
Abstract
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1930-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Manuel and David Macias papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0887
Abstract
Brothers who emigrated to Bettendorf, Iowa, from Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1914 and 1915.
Arrangement The full extent of the Manuel and David Macias collection is preserved in the Iowa Digital Library.
Arrangement The full extent of the Manuel and David Macias collection is preserved in the Iowa Digital Library.
Dates:
1944-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Maria Cano Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0537
Abstract
Maria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.
Dates:
1975-2017
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0558
Abstract
Factory worker who was among the first Latinas to be hired at the International Harvester Company Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois.
Dates:
1950-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Maria Rundquist papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0544
Abstract
Sioux City business owner and political activist who emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1978.
Dates:
1959-2016
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marta Werner papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0361
Abstract
Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
Dates:
1892-1989
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0497
Abstract
Davenport area community activist and leader in its Mexican American community.
Dates:
1926-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Vasquez Olvera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0559
Abstract
Davenport, Iowa, woman whose parents came to Iowa from Mexico in the 1910s.
Dates:
1923-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Modesta and Genero Garnica papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0885
Abstract
Davenport family that emigrated from Mexico in the 1910s.
Dates:
1949-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Muscatine Migrant Committee records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0745
Abstract
Migrant agency that advocated for agricultural laborers employed temporarily on eastern Iowa farms.
Dates:
1962-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Nancy V. "Rusty" Barcelo Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0188
Abstract
Activist and administrator at the University of Iowa whose papers provide insight into Latino life and culture in Iowa and across the Midwest.
Dates:
1946-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract
Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1937-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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