World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Previous term: Women in Wartime
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
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
Bette Brooks Stone papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract
Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bette Brooks Stone papers
Blanca Vasquez Gaines papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0899
Abstract
Puerto Rican woman who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Blanca Vasquez Gaines papers
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Clara Steen Skott papers
Constance Frick Irwin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0208
Abstract
Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Constance Frick Irwin papers
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0384
Abstract
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0460
Abstract
University of Iowa alumna and clubwoman. She wrote a column for the Iowa City Press Citizen during World War II.
Dates:
1929-1993
Entre Nous records (Iowa City, Iowa)
Collection
Identifier: IWA0081
Abstract
Women's drama study club founded in 1914 in Iowa City.
Dates:
1914-2002
Gladys Spayde papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0042
Abstract
Stage actress who spent her childhood in Saskatchewan and was a teacher in Fairfield, Iowa.
Dates:
1932-1982
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Gladys Spayde papers
Harriet Adeline Stevens papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0707
Abstract
Teacher of nutrition education and dietetics; U. S. Army Second Lieutenant who served as a medical hospital dietician at Camp Gordon, Georgia during World War II.
Dates:
1928-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Harriet Adeline Stevens papers
Helene Scriabine papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0080
Abstract
Author and Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Iowa, who emmigrated to the United States after surviving the siege of Leningrad in 1941.
Dates:
1937-1996; 1960-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Helene Scriabine papers
Jeanne Jones Cook papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0795
Abstract
Nurse Jeanne Jones Cook grew up in Iowa and Colorado. She completed her training with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1945.
Dates:
1939-1949
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Jeanne Jones Cook papers
Joiner Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0815
Abstract
Iowa family that corresponded during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1945
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Joiner Family papers
Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0075
Abstract
Social worker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from the 1930s though the 1960s.
Dates:
1880, 1918-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract
A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.
Dates:
1917-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers
Margaret Langland Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0816
Abstract
Nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Dates:
1925-1972
Marion Cox Lichty papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0116
Abstract
Waterloo, Iowa native who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II and then in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Dates:
1942-1989
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Marion Cox Lichty papers
Marjorie Vandervelde papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0375
Abstract
Photojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.
Dates:
1837-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Marjorie Vandervelde papers
Mary Frances Reger-Wilkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0501
Abstract
Social worker who worked for the American National Red Cross during and after World War II.
Dates:
1942-2002