wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Bradley Family papers
Correspondence and other papers of this nineteenth-century family that resided in the Hudson River Valley of New York.
Alice Sophia Brant papers
Diaries of this homemaker and mother who helped manage the family's funeral home in Oelwein.
Mary Berg papers
Pharmacist and professor at The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.
Evelyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials
Cookbooks, newsletters, and other publications of the Radio Homemakers who broadcast over KMA and KFNF in southwest Iowa.
Marjorie Jean Bertalot Block papers
My Story describes Block's training as a nurse, family life, her employment off and on the farm, and her activities in Benton County, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Nancy De Vries Blom papers
Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982
Margaret Talcott Boedeker papers
Teacher with Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1941-1963; vocational counselor and tourism advocate.
Betty Boller oral history
Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Annette Cech papers
Iowa City housewife and mother whose son, Thomas Cech, won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Inez Christen papers
Transcribed diaries of a Northeast Iowa hired girl, farmwoman and mother.
Esther Christensen papers
65-page memoir of Fayette County, Iowa farmwoman.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ella Elmegreen Lage papers
Bound memoir, “Me and Laura,” written by Ella Elmegreen Lage in 1962 about her family history in Scott County, 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.