Des Moines (Iowa)
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf: Library Of Congress Name Authority File
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
City Union of Mothers' Clubs (Des Moines, Iowa) records
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0805
Abstract
Organization made up of representatives of the mothers' clubs of Des Moines schools.
Arrangement 1 folder shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement 1 folder shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1905-1908; Other: Date acquired: 2011-10-18
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
Des Moines Women's Club records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0858
Abstract
Civic and philanthropic organization.
Dates:
1888-2012
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Des Moines Women's Club records
Dora E. Mackay papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0248
Abstract
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dates:
1932-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Dora E. Mackay papers
Dorothy Rubenstein papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0739
Abstract
Federal Civil Service employee who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Communication in 1932.
Dates:
1928-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Dorothy Rubenstein papers
Edith Sackett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0676
Abstract
Schoolteacher and Iowa Mother of the Year, 1969.
Dates:
1959-1975
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edith Sackett papers
Edna Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0443
Abstract
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Dates:
1948-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edna Griffin papers
Edna Means papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Dates:
1908-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Edna Means papers
Elaine Szymoniak papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0166
Abstract
Iowa State senator, Des Moines City Council member, and hearing and speech consultant.
Dates:
1974-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Elaine Szymoniak papers
Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0029
Abstract
Columnist for the Des Moines Tribune, the Des Moines Register, and Better Homes and Gardens.
Dates:
1940-1982
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart Papers
Elizabeth Shaw papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0026
Abstract
Iowa state legislator from 1967 to 1977.
Arrangement Topical files, arranged alphabetically, boxes 1-22; correspondence, boxes 23-30.
Arrangement Topical files, arranged alphabetically, boxes 1-22; correspondence, boxes 23-30.
Dates:
1965-1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Elizabeth Shaw papers
ERA Iowa 1992 records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0305
Abstract
Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.
Dates:
1980-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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ERA Iowa 1992 records
Esther Ver Meer papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0408
Abstract
Farmwoman and member of the Porkettes, the women's auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Producers Council.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1991-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Esther Ver Meer papers
Ethel Reames papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0673
Abstract
Businesswoman who was the creator and proprieter of the Reames Noodle Company in Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1954-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ethel Reames papers
Frances Hawthorne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0473
Abstract
Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.
Dates:
1906-2000; 1950-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Frances Hawthorne papers
Frank Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0659
Abstract
Editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.
Dates:
1951 - 1983; 1960-1980
Fred Schwengel Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0456
Overview
This collection is comprised of the papers of Iowa Representative Fred Schwengel.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960 - 1971
Geraldene Felton papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0330
Abstract
Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Arrangement Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994...
Dates:
1951-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Geraldene Felton papers
Geraldine Greenlee papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0474
Abstract
Received her master's degree from the Department of Physical Education for Women at the State University of Iowa in 1952.
Dates:
1945-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Geraldine Greenlee papers