wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Mrs. AD (Sarah Tillson) Hunt papers
Reminiscence of nineteenth century Humboldt County, Iowa.
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.
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.
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.
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement
Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Evelyn Crary Bacon papers
Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.
Hilda Ellyson Allen papers
The papers consist largely of correspondence between Hilda and George Allen and their three children and cover a broad range of family, social and political issues.
Delvena Anderson papers
Diary of a trip from Iowa City through eastern Canada.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.