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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
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
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
Alberta Metcalf Kelly papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0176
Abstract
High school English teacher who was active in state and national Democratic Party politics during the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
1899-1994
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
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
Alta Martin papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0353
Abstract
Homemaker and mother of five who received her private pilot license in 1963.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1963-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Amber McClintic papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0493
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
Anita Crawford papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0599
Abstract
Buchanan County farmwoman who was active in the Farm Bureau and county historical society.
Dates:
1939-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Cochrane Lomas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0053
Abstract
Republican National Committeewoman in the 1950s and 1960s from Red Oak, Iowa.
Dates:
1917-1991
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
Annette Cech papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0593
Abstract
Iowa City housewife and mother whose son, Thomas Cech, won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Annette Lingelbach papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0639
Abstract
Journalist who wrote for Des Moines and Waterloo newspapers.
Dates:
1937-1996
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
Archie L. Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract
Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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