Women -- 19th century
Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:
De Jong Family papers
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Effie Hoffman Rogers papers
Reporter and city editor for Oskaloosa's Globe Press later elected Grand supreme chapter president of the PEO sisterhood.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck papers
University of Iowa alumna and clubwoman. She wrote a column for the Iowa City Press Citizen during World War II.
Elizabeth Buckwalter papers
Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
Elvira Gaston Platt papers
Teacher and abolitionist who assisted fleeing slaves on the Underground Railroad while living in Fremont County, Iowa. Taught school to Pawnee children in Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
Emeline Fuhrmeister papers
Widowed farmwoman who lived at the homes of her various children.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Emily Putnam Schramm sketchbooks
Sketchbooks of landscapes which focus on the Mississippi River.
Esther Flower Cruikshank Papers
Photocopy of memoir, "The Covered Wagon," by Esther Flower Cruikshank written in 1927.
Florinda Wakefield More papers
Correspondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.
Ida "Belle" Bandfield Holden papers
Schoolteacher in the Waterloo area at the turn of the century.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Iowa Byington Reed papers
The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.
Jennie Sies papers
Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.
Jennifer Riggs Cosson papers
A known suffragist who was active in community and political circles in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kate Martinson papers
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Keyes Family papers
Mount Vernon, Iowa, family whose papers include photographs, account books, correspondence and civil war diaries.
Leona Call papers
Professor of Greek at the State University of Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Lucy Van Voorhis White papers
Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.
Maranda Cline Papers
Consists of a transcribed diary that includes daily entries describing family life near Hills, Iowa from 1891 to 1907.
Margaret Atherton Bonney papers
Bonney's research files include Iowa suffragist Mary Jane Coggeshall, scientist Mary Louise Putnam, physician Jennie McCowen, and pioneer evangelist and minister, Abner Kneeland