Mexican American women
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adella Martinez papers
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Dates:
1927-1983
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Basilisa Herrera papers
Estefania Joyce Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0569
Abstract
Family photographs taken in Iowa, Alabama, and Mexico.
Dates:
1902-2008
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Dates:
1913-2006
Ines Garcia papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0467
Abstract
Mexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1916-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ines Garcia papers
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0733
Overview
The members of Davenport LULAC Council 10 engaged in a wide range of social and political activities including annual fiestas, civil rights and fair housing.
Dates:
1932-2019
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0886
Abstract
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1930-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
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
Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0558
Abstract
Factory worker who was among the first Latinas to be hired at the International Harvester Company Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois.
Dates:
1950-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers
Maria Rundquist papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0544
Abstract
Sioux City business owner and political activist who emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1978.
Dates:
1959-2016
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maria Rundquist 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
Mary Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0497
Abstract
Davenport area community activist and leader in its Mexican American community.
Dates:
1926-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Mary Terronez papers
Mary Vasquez Olvera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0559
Abstract
Davenport, Iowa, woman whose parents came to Iowa from Mexico in the 1910s.
Dates:
1923-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Mary Vasquez Olvera papers
Nancy V. "Rusty" Barcelo Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0188
Abstract
Activist and administrator at the University of Iowa whose papers provide insight into Latino life and culture in Iowa and across the Midwest.
Dates:
1946-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Nancy V. "Rusty" Barcelo Papers
Otilia Gomez Savala papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract
Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1937-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Otilia Gomez Savala papers