Women in charitable work
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
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
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract
Diaries of an Iowa woman.
Dates:
1932-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Bernice Zimmer papers
Beverly Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0148
Abstract
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Dates:
1856-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Beverly Everett papers
Booster Women's Club (Fort Madison, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0322
Abstract
Social and philanthropic club organized in 1947 by African American women in Fort Madison, Iowa
Dates:
1947-1998
Cedar Valley Community Club (Muscatine County, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0594
Abstract
Club formed in 1920 by rural women living near West Liberty, Iowa.
Dates:
1922-2009
Cynthia Grant Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA1182
Overview
Research materials and correspondence of a historian of the Unitarian church’s female ministers in Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dates:
(1973-1994)
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Cynthia Grant Tucker papers
Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0113
Abstract
Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.
Dates:
1898-1988
Dorothy Misbach papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0468
Abstract
Educator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.
Dates:
1890-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Dorothy Misbach papers
Edith Edmund Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0740
Abstract
Longstanding member of Fairfield, Iowa clubs including the Fancy Work Circle and the Good Cheer Society.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edith Edmund Johnson 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
Edna Englert papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0604
Abstract
Iowa City native who was the organist at St. Wenceslaus Church for sixty-five years, retiring at the age of 81.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1987-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edna Englert papers
Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0460
Abstract
University of Iowa alumna and clubwoman. She wrote a column for the Iowa City Press Citizen during World War II.
Dates:
1929-1993
Entre Nous records (Iowa City, Iowa)
Collection
Identifier: IWA0081
Abstract
Women's drama study club founded in 1914 in Iowa City.
Dates:
1914-2002
Friendly Circle Club (Washington, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0533
Abstract
A Washington, Iowa women's social club which was founded in 1934.
Dates:
1934-2011
Friendly Neighbors Club (Deep River, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0377
Abstract
The club was organized in 1952 as a social and philanthropic forum for local women.
Dates:
1952-1992
Lucille Ketchum Carter papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0131
Abstract
1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.
Dates:
1936-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Lucille Ketchum Carter papers
Marian Rees papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0273
Abstract
Emmy Award-winning television producer and owner of Marian Rees Associates, Inc.
Dates:
1977-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Marian Rees papers
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0262
Abstract
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Ortha P. Neff papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Ortha P. Neff papers
Pilot International Club of Iowa City
Collection
Identifier: IWA0788
Abstract
Organization to promote improvement of conditions and treatment for brain-related disorders.
Dates:
1962-2010