Immigrant families
Subject
Subject Source: 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.
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.
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.
Augusta Gustafson Swanson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.