Immigrants
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 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
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
Benita Allen papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0753
Abstract
Russian immigrant recalls her childhood in Russia during World War I and the 1917 revolution.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Benita Allen 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
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.
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.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Helen Shediwy Scheetz memoir
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.