wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
David Nadler papers
Memoir of a Renate Nadler’s experience as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany written by her son, and an account of her son’s visit to her birthplace several decades following World War II.
Kathryn Kropp Triplett papers
Memoir reflecting on the life of a University of Iowa graduate and Physical Education teacher from Fort Dodge, Iowa throughout the 1920s to the 1960s.
Caroline Louise Hopwood Cook papers
A farm wife from the Oxford, Iowa area whose diaries record everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gusti Kollman papers
Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa
Lois Thor papers
Iowa State University student and braille typist originally from Clinton, Iowa.
Lois Plummer Hartline papers
Nursing student at University of Iowa College of Nursing in the 1950s
Madgetta Dungy papers
First Black woman to graduate from Cornell College and administrator at the University of Iowa whose dissertation focused on the experiences of African American graduate students.
Fay Avivah Jonas Kaye papers
Essays about the Beth El Synagogue and the Fort Dodge Jewish community.
Lucille Anderson papers
Lucille M. Anderson’s personal reflections on people who inspired her.
Women:Hood Project records
Oral histories exploring personal experiences of femininity, and images of responsive artworks.
The Maid Narratives: Oral Histories from the Great Migration to Iowa
Oral history interviews with African American women who worked in domestic service in the South before moving to Iowa.
McCown Family Papers
Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.
Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history
Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers
Factory worker who was among the first Latinas to be hired at the International Harvester Company Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois.
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
Alice McMurry papers
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
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.
Ruth Perkins Messenger Papers
Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.