Immigrant families
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adella Martinez papers
Amy Sophia Auer memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0754
Abstract
Photocopied memoir of the Olson and Auer families who emigrated from Norway in the nineteenth century and settled in Northwood, Iowa.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Amy Sophia Auer memoir
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Dates:
1927-1983
Augusta Gustafson Swanson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Dates:
1884-1993; 1884-1938
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Basilisa Herrera papers
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bertha Korn Tucker papers
De Jong Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Dates:
1852-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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De Jong Family papers
Ernest Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract
Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Dates:
1910-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ernest Rodriguez papers
Esther Treptow Clark
Collection
Identifier: IWA0893
Abstract
Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1919-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Esther Treptow Clark
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Dates:
1913-2006
Helen Shediwy Scheetz memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0677
Abstract
The youngest daughter of immigrants reflects on growing up in Iowa towns during the Depression.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Helen Shediwy Scheetz memoir
Lela Aurilla Yost memoir
Collection
Identifier: IWA0325
Abstract
Schoolteacher and farm wife near Mason City and Kesley, Iowa.
Arrangement Shelved in printer works, CT 275.Y48 AC 1990
Arrangement Shelved in printer works, CT 275.Y48 AC 1990
Dates:
1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Lela Aurilla Yost memoir
Mabel Korver Van Haaften memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0409
Abstract
Dutch-American farmwoman in early nineteenth century Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Mabel Korver Van Haaften memoir
Maria Cano Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0537
Abstract
Maria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.
Dates:
1975-2017
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maria Cano Martinez papers
Mary Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0497
Abstract
Davenport area community activist and leader in its Mexican American community.
Dates:
1926-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Mary Terronez papers
Modesta and Genero Garnica papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0885
Abstract
Davenport family that emigrated from Mexico in the 1910s.
Dates:
1949-2004
Nancy De Vries Blom papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0387
Abstract
Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982
Dates:
1982-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Nancy De Vries Blom papers
Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract
Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1937-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Reese Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract
Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.
Dates:
1800-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Reese Family Papers
Ruth Schaefer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0746
Abstract
A Latin teacher who served as friend and mentor to Vietnamese refugees in the Iowa City community.
Dates:
1956-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Ruth Schaefer papers