Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs and Oral Histories
Subject
Subject Source: Local
Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:
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....
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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A. Louise Mays papers
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.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Adelia St. John Gates papers
Collection — Other Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract
Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adelia St. John Gates papers
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.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alice Kelley papers
Alice Kipp papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alice Kipp papers
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.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alice McMurry papers
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Almira Ames Farnham memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Abstract
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Almira Ames Farnham memoir
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Abstract
Early, Iowa, wife and mother.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Abstract
Diarist, mother, and minister's wife.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Anna Moore Cheney diaries