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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.
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Azalia Mitchell papers
Mitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.
Barbara Burrell Nichols papers
Mother from Ames, Iowa who died of polio in 1955.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Barbara Coffin papers
City hostess and policewoman from Waterloo, Iowa.
Barbara Fassbinder papers
Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.
Barbara Flanagan papers
Reporter, women's page editor, and columnist for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune from the 1940s until 1988.
Barbara M. Calderon papers
Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Barbara Wommack papers
Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.
Basilisa Herrera papers
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Bernadine Solberg papers
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
Bernice Leary papers
Educator, author, collector of children's books.
Bernice Zimmer papers
Bertha Hedges papers
A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Bess Aldrich papers
Twentieth-century writer.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Bess Newcomer papers
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Bessie Wilkerson papers
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) records
A women's study club in Percival, Iowa that was founded in 1922.
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- University of Iowa. Department of Physical Education and Dance 3
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- Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002 3
- Women's Professional Basketball League 3
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- Anderson, Margaret, 1928- 2
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- Campbell, Bonnie J., 1948- 2
- Central College (Pella, Iowa) 2
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- Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 2
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