20th century
Found in 632 Collections and/or Records:
OOP (Marion, Iowa) records
Women's study club founded in 1867 by young women who had attended the Marion Female Seminary.
Opal Miller papers
Democrat, educator and clubwoman who served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the 1970s.
Ortha P. Neff papers
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Otha Wearin Papers
The papers of a Congressman from Iowa in 1932, 1934, and 1936 who was also a writer and was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame for his westerns.
Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.
Paisley Family Diaries Collection
Diaries of John and Chloe Paisley. John served in the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War, and later lived in Burlington, Iowa. Also includes diaries kept by Mabel Paisley and Susan Swan Lippitt. Contains Civil War diaries.
Palmer/Calkins/Corbin Papers
Letters, diaries, genealogies, papers, and videocassette dealing with the Civil War, the Mormon move west, and World War II.
Palo Alto Garden Club (Emmetsburg, Iowa) records
Papers of Ruth Suckow
This collection is comprised of photographs, letters, paintings, and manuscripts of Ruth Suckow, family, and friends.
Patricia Filipowska papers
Poet and native of Burlington, Iowa.
Arrangement
The Well (Lexington, MA: R.E. Filipowski, c1993) is shelved with printed works, in the Iowa Authors Collection in the Special Collections Department, and in the general collection in the Main Library.
Patricia Geadelmann papers
Feminist and physical educator who was a strong proponent of the ERA and Title IX.
Patricia Hillard papers
Papers document Hillard's work as Western U.S. Division Director of La Leche League International.
Arrangement
Administrative, Boxes 1-10
Area Conferences, Boxes 10-11
Area Coordinator of Leaders (ACL), Boxes 11-13
Areas, Boxes 13-18
Biographical information, Box 1
Conferences, Boxes 18-20
Correspondence, Boxes 20-25
Division Director, Boxes 25-27
Financial Records, Boxes 27-29
Human Relations Enrichment (HRE), Boxes 29-30
Other Divisions, Boxes 31-33
Photographs, Box 46
Professional Liaison Department (PLD), Boxes 33-34
Programs, Boxes 34-35
Publications, Box 35-42
Publicity, Box 42
Regional Administrators (RA), Boxes 42-44
Resource and Development (R&D), Boxes 44-46
Paul Clifford Pickett Papers
Paul Pickett's notes on John Ward Studebaker.
Paul Engle Papers
Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.
Paul Mitchell papers
An edited copy of Frances Mitchell's diary entries chronicling her journey from Seattle, Washington to Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
Paula Watts Brown papers
Pauline Lyon papers
Waterloo, Iowa, native who served in WAVES during World War II and later worked for the American Red Cross.
Pearl Knoop papers
Librarian and bird watcher from Marble Rock, Iowa.
Peg Mullen papers
Anti-Vietnam War activist whose son, Michael, was killed by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam in 1970.
Arrangement
Copies of the hardcover and paperback versions of "Friendly Fire" and a hardcover copy of "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" are shelved in the printed works collection.
Penny Furgerson papers
Native of India who founded the Gateway Dance Theatre, a Des Moines-based company specializing in multiethnic dance.