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Sioux City (Iowa)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf: Library Of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Francis Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0357
Abstract

Editor of the Sioux City Journal. Primarily correspondence, with speeches, clippings, and a scrapbook on Abraham Lincoln.

Dates: 1913-1949; Majority of material found in 1919-1930
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections

Audio recording, January 15, 2020

 Item
Scope and Contents

Audio recording of an interview with Iowa state senator Jackie Smith about her legislative service, the role of gender in politics, and advice for other women running for office.

Dates: January 15, 2020
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives / Our Rightful Place: Iowa Women in Politics oral history collection / PHASE 1 INTERVIEWS / Smith, Jackie

Emerson Study Club, Sioux City records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0250
Abstract

Women's study club founded in Sioux City in 1892.

Dates: 1966-1997
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

La Casa Latina (Sioux City, Iowa)

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0726
Abstract

Non-profit organization that helped recent Latino immigrants and non-English speakers in the Siouxland area obtain human services, healthcare, housing, and other basic needs.

Dates: 1989 - 2007
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

League of Women Voters, Sioux City records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0229
Scope and Contents The League of Women Voters of Sioux City records date from 1978 to 1993 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Sioux City Journal and the Des Moines Register chronicling local debates in the late 1970s about Sioux City's urban renewal and city government structure. Clippings on how other Iowa cities were handling these issues in their communities are included. The home rule charter folder includes the proposal submitted by the Sioux City Charter Commission to the mayor and city council, which called for re-structuring the city's government; among other things, the new charter would have given more power to the mayor. The proposed charter was hotly debated for several months and defeated in a narrow vote; the League opposed the charter. The urban renewal newspaper clippings describe conflicts over how to maintain a vital business sector, and an investigation into charges that a developer had misused...
Dates: 1978-1993
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Maria Rundquist papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0544
Abstract

Sioux City business owner and political activist who emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1978.

Dates: 1959-2016
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Marilyn O. Murphy papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0547
Abstract

Social activist from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1973-2010
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Marjorie Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0376
Abstract

Teacher, newspaper columnist and poet from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1960-1995
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Mary Ungerer Hauth papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0190
Abstract

Nurse in Sioux City during the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: 1905-1948
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Miriam Baker Nye papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0311
Abstract

Moville, Iowa, farm wife and columnist for the Sioux City Farm Journal Weekly.

Dates: 1938-1996
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Quota Club (Sioux City, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0342
Abstract

Professional women's service club formed before 1935, which is active in community and world service, with special emphasis on hearing and speech aid.

Dates: 1960-1997
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Roberta Pendleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0341
Abstract

Sioux City, Iowa resident who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1943-1996
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Transcript, January 15, 2020

 Item
Scope and Contents

Transcript of an interview with Iowa state senator Jackie Smith about her legislative service, the role of gender in politics, and advice for other women running for office.

Dates: January 15, 2020
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives / Our Rightful Place: Iowa Women in Politics oral history collection / PHASE 1 INTERVIEWS / Smith, Jackie

Wiley Mayne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0448
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Iowa, 1967-1975. Campaign and office files relating to his political career.

Dates: 1966-1974
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections

Women Aware, Inc. (Sioux City, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0727
Abstract

Women Aware, Inc. is a non-profit organization located in Sioux City, Iowa, which was started in 1979. Its primary focus is on displaced homemakers and single parent homemakers, providing advocacy, education, information, counseling, referral and support.

Dates: 1985-2004
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

Women's History Project (Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa) interviews

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0697
Abstract

Interviews with members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1991
Found in: Iowa Women's Archives

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