Autobiographies
Subject
Subject Source: Lcgft: Library Of Congress Genre Form Thesaurus
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....
Dates:
1939-1997
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.
Dates:
1915-2011
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.
Dates:
1863-1865?; Other: Date acquired: 2008-05-20
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.
Dates:
1888-2005; 1923-2005
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.
Dates:
1986-2006
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.
Dates:
1993-2001
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.
Dates:
1897-2000
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.
Dates:
1896
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.
Dates:
1885-1950
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.
Dates:
1892-1953
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Dates:
ca. 1912-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract
Diaries of an Iowa woman.
Dates:
1932-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bernice Zimmer papers
Bess Newcomer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0663
Abstract
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Dates:
1936-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bess Newcomer papers
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
Abstract
Community activist from Red Oak, Iowa.
Dates:
1874-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bettie McKenzie papers
Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Dates:
1974-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Bonnie Kern papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in jail and eventually was pardoned.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Dates:
2004-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bonnie Kern papers
Carrie Lindahl papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0638
Abstract
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Dates:
1875-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Carrie Lindahl papers
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0687
Abstract
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Carrie V. Talcott papers
Catharine King Herr diary
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Catharine King Herr diary