Memoirs
Subject
Subject Source: Aat: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:
Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract
In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
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
Alice Kipp papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Dates:
1986-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alice Kipp papers
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Alice McMurry papers
Almira Ames Farnham memoir
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Abstract
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1896
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Almira Ames Farnham memoir
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.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Amy Sophia Auer memoir
Annette Cech papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0593
Abstract
Iowa City housewife and mother whose son, Thomas Cech, won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Annette Cech papers
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1998-1999
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
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract
Diaries of an Iowa woman.
Dates:
1932-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bernice Zimmer papers
Bess Newcomer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0663
Abstract
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Dates:
1936-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bess Newcomer papers
Bette Brooks Stone papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract
Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bette Brooks Stone papers
Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Dates:
1974-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Bonnie Kern papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in jail and eventually was pardoned.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Arrangement Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Dates:
2004-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Bonnie Kern papers
Charles D. Cuttler Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG99.0001
Abstract
Professor of art and art history. Consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence, administrative records.
Dates:
1935-1988
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
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Charles D. Cuttler Papers
Christine Dutson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Dates:
1954 - 2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Christine Dutson papers
Claudine Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0446
Abstract
Harris worked in radiation detection instrumentation. She was active in the Johnson County League of Women Voters and the Johnson County Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Dates:
1903-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Claudine Harris papers
Dallner and Petersen Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0484
Abstract
Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.
Dates:
1907-2001
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1958-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Della Marie Koppenhaver papers