Immigrants
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: 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.
Dates:
1922-2005
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.
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
Benita Allen papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0753
Abstract
Russian immigrant recalls her childhood in Russia during World War I and the 1917 revolution.
Dates:
Existence: 1991
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.
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
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
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
Leola Bergmann papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0237
Abstract
Scholar, writer and artist.
Dates:
1935-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Leola Bergmann papers
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
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
/
Maria Rundquist 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
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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
/
Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Rosalie Braverman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0259
Abstract
Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.
Dates:
1929-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Rosalie Braverman 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