wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Bonnie Kern papers
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.
Arrangement
Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Edna Means papers
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.
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers
Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Iowa Women Judges Project papers
Oral history interviews with the 'pioneers' of Iowa's women jurists.
Janie Yates-Glandorf papers
Iowa City high school drama and English teacher.
Jean Kern papers
Professor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.
Mae Irene Ludemann papers
High school history teacher who traveled to Europe in 1929 and recorded her experiences in a diary.
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Mary McDermott Shideler papers
Theologian, writer and lecturer whose work encompassed religious theology, philosophy and psychology.
McCown Family Papers
Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.
Off and Holsteen Family papers
Two generations of an eastern Iowa family, many generations of which attended the University of Iowa.
Prentiss Family papers
The family came to Iowa City in 1905 when Henry Prentiss established the Anatomy Department at the State University of Iowa.
Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.