Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.

Correspondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.

Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.

Member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and a missionary to China from 1928 to 1936.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Religious order that helped to establish a school in St. John's Parish, Bancroft, Iowa in 1900.

One of the first ordained female ministers in the Midwest whose sermons were broadcast on radio stations KFNF and KMA for over sixty years in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.

Interviews with members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sioux City, Iowa.

Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.

Life partners Kittredge Cherry (1957-), an author, journalist, and minister to the LGBT community, and Audrey Lockwood (1957- ), a financial planner, met as students at the University of Iowa in 1975 and lived and worked in Japan before settling in California.

Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

The papers consist primarily of her self-published writings, reflections, and poetry about her work at the Arizona State prison and on the Mexican border.

Letters From Egypt by Helen Baird Branyan consists primarily of Clarice Bloomfield's letters, written between 1920 and 1938. The letters describe the life of an Albia, Iowa, girl who became a missionary in Egypt.

Graduate of Ministry at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where she was the first Unitarian Universalist student.

Diarist, mother, and minister's wife.

Ecumenical organization.

Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Iowa City native who was the organist at St. Wenceslaus Church for sixty-five years, retiring at the age of 81.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.