Volunteer workers in social service
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
A. Louise Mays papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract
Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994....
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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A. Louise Mays papers
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Aldeen Davis papers
Archie L. Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract
Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Archie L. Greene papers
Barbara Wommack papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0698
Abstract
Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1990-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Barbara Wommack papers
Cecile Cooper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Abstract
Civil rights worker in Davenport.
Dates:
1964-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Cecile Cooper papers
Edith Neal papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0660
Abstract
Known as the Vietnam Mail Lady, Neal corresponded with servicemen stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.
Dates:
1931-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edith Neal papers
Elizabeth Anna Gernes papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0270
Abstract
Educator and Red Cross worker.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC341] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC341] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dates:
1929-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Elizabeth Anna Gernes papers
Greene Township Women's Club (Iowa County, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0412
Abstract
Social club of Iowa County farmwomen that began as a Farm Bureau club but later dropped that affiliation.
Dates:
1959-1996
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Dates:
1905-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Gwendolyn Fowler papers
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0565
Abstract
Nondenominational and nonpartisan organization bringing Iowa women's clubs together.
Dates:
1853-2006
Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0075
Abstract
Social worker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from the 1930s though the 1960s.
Dates:
1880, 1918-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
Louane Newsome papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0213
Abstract
Armed Services librarian during World War II, and University of Iowa professor in the School of Library and Information Science.
Dates:
1938-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Louane Newsome papers
Maggie Tinsman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0348
Abstract
Bettendorf Republican who served on the Scott County Board of Supervisors and the Iowa State Senate.
Dates:
1977-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maggie Tinsman papers
Margaret Talcott Boedecker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0401
Abstract
Teacher with Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1941-1963; vocational counselor and tourism advocate.
Dates:
1937-1998
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
Marta Werner papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0361
Abstract
Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
Dates:
1892-1989
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Marta Werner papers
Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0857
Abstract
Sexual abuse response and advocacy center established in in Iowa City in 1973 to serve located the University of Iowa community and surrounding counties.
Dates:
1971-2010
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
Dates:
1858-2012
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Young Women's Resource Center (Des Moines, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0048
Abstract
This local organization's goal was to, educate, and empower young women in the Greater Des Moines area through counseling and other programs.
Dates:
1979-2003