Women and War
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Ortha P. Neff papers
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Pauline Lyon papers
Waterloo, Iowa, native who served in WAVES during World War II and later worked for the American Red Cross.
Peg Mullen papers
Anti-Vietnam War activist whose son, Michael, was killed by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam in 1970.
Arrangement
Copies of the hardcover and paperback versions of "Friendly Fire" and a hardcover copy of "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" are shelved in the printed works collection.
Proteus Club (Des Moines) records
Women's study club organized in 1896 by college graduates for their intellectual improvement.
Roberta Pendleton papers
Sioux City, Iowa resident who was a WAVE during World War II.
Rosalie Braverman papers
Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.
Rosemary Tharp papers
Cedar Falls native who served in the WAVES during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Rowene Danbom papers
Journalist who worked at the International News Service in Des Moines, Iowa during World War II and became its first woman bureau chief.
Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers
Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.
Ruth Hager Cousin papers
Trained as a nurse between 1917 and 1920, and worked as a school nurse in Iowa Falls and Marshalltown, Iowa from 1931 to 1965.
Ruth Wilson papers
Journalist who worked for the Stars and Stripes in postwar Europe.
Sue M. Reed papers
Republican Party activist and officer of Iowa and National Federations of Republican Women, 1950s-1970s.
Sylvia M. Stoesser papers
University of Iowa graduate in 1928 with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. She was the first woman chemist to work for Dow Chemical Company.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary records
Booklet: "Fifty Years of Growth and Service: Ladies Auxiliary to the Department of Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1929-1979."
Virginia Jones papers
Community activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.
War Brides of World War II papers
1995 honors thesis of University of Iowa undergraduate student, Rachel Casteel.
Welch and Angrick Collection
Material relating to the Heart of Hawkeye Council of Campfire Girls, The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Iowa Department of the Woman's Relief Corps.
Wes Bartlett memoir
A Collection of Memories of the Algona Prisoner of War Camp, 1943-1946, compiled by Wes Bartlett.
Willing Workers Club (Fayette County, Iowa) records
A social and benevolent women's club initially formed as a Red Cross sewing club during World War I.
Zella May Gerber papers
A secretary who worked in Alaska in 1943 and at the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant in Tennessee from 1944 to 1945.