wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Delvena Anderson papers
Diary of a trip from Iowa City through eastern Canada.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dora E. Mackay papers
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dora Jane Hamblin papers
Iowa native who wrote for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, LIFE magazine, and other periodicals.
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Edith Sprout memoir
Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
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.
Effie "Hadley" Brindle papers
Farm wife in Hardin County, Iowa, whose husband served in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1941 and 1943.
Eleanor Eyestone Trummel papers
Home demonstration agent for Iowa State College Extension Service and homemaker.
Elise Boddicker Schallau papers
Memoir, 1998, 58pp. Schallau reflects on farming and family life in two Iowa Counties – Benton and Iowa.
Elizabeth Anna Gernes papers
Educator and Red Cross worker.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC341] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Farm magazine writer.
Ella Elmegreen Lage papers
Bound memoir, “Me and Laura,” written by Ella Elmegreen Lage in 1962 about her family history in Scott County, Iowa.
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
Esther Christensen papers
65-page memoir of Fayette County, Iowa farmwoman.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Flower Cruikshank Papers
Photocopy of memoir, "The Covered Wagon," by Esther Flower Cruikshank written in 1927.
Esther Hasson Morris papers
A memoir, "Grandpa's Legacy: Short Stories of My Life."
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.