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wa00008. Nineteenth Century Women

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00008

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Athene Club records

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1152
Abstract

The program for the Athene Club from 1897-1898.

Dates: Existence: 1897-1898

Mary Linder papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0996
Abstract

Geology and zoology notes from the Iowa City Academy, 1881.

Dates: 1881-1885

Mary Ann Dunn Leonard papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0995
Abstract

Diary of two years in the life of a Cedar County farm woman.

Dates: 1890-1891

Esther Flower Cruikshank Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1054
Abstract

Photocopy of memoir, "The Covered Wagon," by Esther Flower Cruikshank written in 1927.

Dates: Existence: 1927

Bill Whittaker papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1092
Abstract

"The Abolitionist and the Fashion Editor: Walter Hoyt and Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd," by William Whittaker, submitted to "The Annals of Iowa."

Dates: 2003

Clara Woodmansee Winchell papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1069
Abstract

"Stories Of My Childhood" by Clara Woodmansee Winchell.

Dates: undated

Mrs. AD (Sarah Tillson) Hunt papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1146
Abstract

Reminiscence of nineteenth century Humboldt County, Iowa.

Dates: 1884 - 1901

Adele Fuchs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1174
Abstract

German-American doctor, teacher, and suffragette who lived in Sioux City and Des Moines from 1879 to the late 1930s.

Dates: 1884-1990

Caroline Louise Hopwood Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1196
Abstract

A farm wife from the Oxford, Iowa area whose diaries record everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1883-1912

Mary Jane Coggeshall artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1179
Abstract

A suffragist from Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1896-1909

Mary Bywater Cross papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1223
Abstract

A quilt historian and genealogist who collected the papers of several generations of her family’s history in Iowa.

Dates: 1819-2016

YWCA of Greater Des Moines records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0167
Abstract

The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.

Dates: 1885-1995

Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0113
Abstract

Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.

Dates: 1898-2016

Carrie Kelly Beatty papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0127
Abstract

Young woman who came to Hancock County, Iowa in 1868; her experiences were recorded in the book, A Prairie Rose, by Bertha E. Bush.

Dates: 1874-1999

Ellen Mowrer Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1856-1994

Elvira Gaston Platt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0181
Abstract

Teacher and abolitionist who assisted fleeing slaves on the Underground Railroad while living in Fremont County, Iowa. Taught school to Pawnee children in Pennsylvania and Nebraska.

Dates: 1853-1974

Iowa Byington Reed papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0555
Abstract

The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.

Dates: 1872-1936

Robinson-Lacy Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0424
Abstract

Correspondence diaries, scrapbook, and genealogical information regarding this Dubuque-area family.

Dates: 1852-2001

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Proteus Club (Des Moines) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0096
Abstract

Women's study club organized in 1896 by college graduates for their intellectual improvement.

Dates: 1896 - 2024