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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract

Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.

Dates: 1988-1993

Aaron Silander papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0525
Abstract

Iowa City feminist and activist.

Dates: 1972-2004

Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.

Dates: 1986-2006

Alice McMurry papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract

Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993-2001

Alpha Evans papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0605
Abstract

Rural middle school teacher who chaired the Iowa committee to revise teacher standards in the 1970s.

Dates: 1977-2001

American Business Women's Association records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0152
Abstract

Iowa City chapter.

Dates: 1971-

Amy Sophia Auer memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0754
Abstract

Photocopied memoir of the Olson and Auer families who emigrated from Norway in the nineteenth century and settled in Northwood, Iowa.

Dates: 1993

Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract

Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Anita Lowry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0300
Abstract

University of Iowa Librarian who was the first head of the Information Arcade at the University of Iowa Libraries, 1992-1996.

Dates: 1982-1996

Artists in Action (Muscatine, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0414
Abstract

Muscatine organization of area artists who opened a shop and organized an annual craft fair, classes, and craft demonstrations.

Dates: 1976-1995

Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract

Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.



Arrangement

Four folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1998-1999

Barbara Wommack papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0698
Abstract

Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.

Dates: 1990-2005

Bessie Wilkerson papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0320
Abstract

Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1994

Betty Boller oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0290
Abstract

Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Bonnie J. Campbell papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0368
Abstract

Chair of Iowa's Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991 and first woman to serve as Iowa's Attorney General from 1990 until 1994.

Dates: 1992-1999

Bridging the Generations Exhibit: Master Farm Homemakers Guild records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0589
Abstract

This exhibit was created by the Master Farm Homemakers Guild to publicize their history in Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1992-2001

Brine, Pelton and Thompson V. The University of Iowa records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0495
Abstract

Materials relate to the suit filed by 3 dental hygiene faculty members charging that the scheduled closing of the University of Iowa Dental Hygiene Program was discriminatory.



Arrangement

Appeal Documents, 1995-1996 (Boxes 19-20)

Background Information, 1985-1995 (Boxes 20-24, 27)

Defendant Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 6-10)

Formal Documents, 1991-1995 (Boxes 1-3)

Letters of Support, 1991-1995 (Boxes 25-26)

Newspaper Clippings, 1991-1996 (Box 26)

Plaintiff Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 11-19, 27)

Trial Transcripts, 1995 (Boxes 3-6)

Unidentified Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 10-11)

Dates: 1985-1996

Campaign to Add Women to the Iowa Constitution records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0400
Abstract

Organization formed to work for passage of Iowa state ERA.

Dates: 1978-1998

Catharine King Herr papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract

Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1976-1978

Catherine Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0217
Abstract

Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.

Dates: 1995

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Women in agriculture 39
Women 38
Women -- Political activity 35
Twentieth century 32
Women lawyers 32
Video recordings 30
Memoirs 28
Diaries 27
Autobiographies 26
African American women -- Iowa 24
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Teachers 24
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African American women 22
Families 22
Farm life 22
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Correspondence 18
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Women in public life 18
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Des Moines (Iowa) 16
Women's rights 16
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Davenport (Iowa) 8
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Depressions -- 1929 7
Feminists 7
Johnson County (Iowa) 7
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Stock Market Crash, 1929 7
Women in nonprofit organizations 7
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Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 5
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Names
University of Iowa 22
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 7
Democratic Party (Iowa) 5
Republican Party (Iowa) 5
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 4
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Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 4
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 4
Drake University 3
University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 3
American Association of University Women 2
Artists In Action (Muscatine, Iowa) 2
Berry, Jean, 1938- 2
Campbell, Bonnie J., 1948- 2
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-) 2
Emma Goldman Clinic 2
Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-2015 2
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 2
Henry, Phylliss, 1940- 2
Iowa Cornets (Basketball team) 2
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 2
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 2
Iowa. General Assembly 2
Jew, Jean Y. 2
Lemme, Helen 2
Lipsky, Joan (1919-2015) 2
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 2
Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 2
Myers, Virginia A., 1927-2015 2
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League 2
National Organization for Women. Dubuque Chapter 2
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 2
Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays 2
State University of Iowa 2
Teaford, Jane (1935-) 2
Torrence Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014 (1926-2014) 2
University of Northern Iowa 2
Wing, Adrien Katherine 2
Women's Professional Basketball League 2
AIDS Coalition of Johnson County (Iowa) 1
Ackeman, Karen 1
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
Adams, Vicki 1
Alan Guttmacher Institute 1
American Basketball League 1
American Business Women's Association. Grant Wood Chapter 1
American Institute of Commerce 1
Americans for Religious Liberty 1
Anderson, Helen 1
Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
Annin, Marilyn 1
Ashby, Rhoda 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Atalig, Angelica Lynn Rose 1
Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
Auer family 1
Auer, Amy Sophia, 1900- 1
Balster, Stella Werden 1
Barclay, Winston 1
Bartlett, Wes 1
Basgall, Carol 1
Baxter, Elaine (1933-2021) 1
Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
Bennett, Mary 1
Berg, Orville 1
Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1
Berry, Venise T. 1
Berry, Vern, 1906-2004 1
Bishop, Nellie, 1904-1999 1
Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999 1
Bloom, Amy 1
Bloom, Isabel 1
Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Bob's Creek Neighbors (Club : Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Bolden, Louise, 1922- 1
Bolin, Molly, 1957- 1
Boller, Betty, 1924- 1
Bonfiglio, Ruth, 1918-2008 1
Boulware, Lois, 1903-1998 1
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
Braunwarth, Sarah, 1853-1927 1
Braverman, Rosalie, 1910-2010 1
Bridgeport Central High School (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
Briggs, Nancy 1
Briles, Margaret Stevenson 1
Brine, Pauline 1
Britton, Jennifer 1
Brooks, Beth 1
Brown, Sara Slee 1
Brubaker, Mary 1
Bruene, Barbara 1
Bruggmann, Charles 1
Bruggmann, Dominique 1
Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
Bucklew, Jeanette, 1946- 1
Buckley, Irene Coleman, 1904-2006 1
Buckley, Susan C. 1
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