wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers
Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.
Vera Holzhauer papers
Diaries and account books of a homemaker and Sunday school teacher from Muscatine, Iowa from 1915 to 1959.
Adele Fuchs papers
German-American doctor, teacher, and suffragette who lived in Sioux City and Des Moines from 1879 to the late 1930s.
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 Plummer Hartline papers
Nursing student at University of Iowa College of Nursing in the 1950s
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.