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Abbie Romey papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract
Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Dates:
1891-1993
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
Beverly Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0148
Abstract
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Dates:
1856-2001
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
Church Women United (Johnson County, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0597
Abstract
Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
De Jong Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Dates:
1852-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dieman-Bennett Dance Theatre of the Hemispheres (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0265
Abstract
Cedar Rapids dance studio founded in 1951 by Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett.
Dates:
1929-2017
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
Edythe Stirlen papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0139
Abstract
One of the first ordained female ministers in the Midwest whose sermons were broadcast on radio stations KFNF and KMA for over sixty years in Shenandoah, Iowa.
Dates:
1930-1987
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Esther Sietmann Warner Dendel papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0301
Eve Drewelowe papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0135
Abstract
Artist who attended the State University of Iowa and in 1924 became the first person to receive a masters degree in Painting and Art History.
Dates:
1910-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Frances Graham papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0862
Abstract
Amateur historian and clubwoman from Fayette County, Iowa.
Dates:
1912-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Gladys Homan papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0261
Abstract
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
Dates:
1871-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa League for Nursing records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0580
Abstract
The Iowa League for Nursing's efforts have included active participation in community planning and action for health care, advocating changes such as home health care. The organization made efforts to assure the continuing supply of nurses by providing them with the educational opportunities to reach their maximum career potential, ability to move into management and leadership positions, and promoting a greater public appreciation of nursing as a profession.
Dates:
1952-2002
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
Kittredge Cherry and Audrey Lockwood
Collection
Identifier: IWA0759
Abstract
Life partners Kittredge Cherry (1957- ), an author, journalist, and minister to the LGBT community, and Audrey Lockwood (1957- ), a financial planner, met as students at the University of Iowa in 1975 and lived and worked in Japan before settling in California.
Dates:
1970-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Johnson County records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0021
Abstract
Local branch of the national non-partisan League of Women Voters which seeks to promote political responsibility through educating and informing the public on selected governmental issues and promoting action on those issues.
Dates:
1920-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Des Moines records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0243
Abstract
This non-partisan group studied and acted upon the many local issues including the following: the council-manager form of city government, home rule for local and county government, reapportionment of legislative districts of the Iowa General Assembly, desegregation and integration of Des Moines public schools, and the need for affordable housing in the community.
Dates:
1936-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Muscatine records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0636
Abstract
During the 1980s and 1990s, the LWV of Muscatine conducted a number of studies on Muscatine county issues, including the ambulance 911 system, law enforcement, county courthouse space needs, alternative forms of county government, housing, education, land use, hazardous waste, local option tax, the U.S. Highway 61 Bypass, and the Muscatine fire station.
Dates:
1943-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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