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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

Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

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

Dates: 1986-2006

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

Cleona Township Women's Club (Scott County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0440
Abstract

Scott County, Iowa, Farm Bureau women's club.

Dates: 1960-1989

Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0449
Abstract

Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1982-1999

Elizabeth R. Miller papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0112
Abstract

Farm woman and Republican state legislator from Marshalltown, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1984

Grace Ferns papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0608
Abstract

Memoir and oral history transcript of a rural Iowa school teacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-2002

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0244
Abstract

Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.

Dates: 1983-2007

Hedwig Schmidt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1044
Abstract

Resident of Clayton County, Iowa, whose diaries from the 1960’s to the 1980’s related to rural life.

Dates: 1961-2015

Helen Knievel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0718
Abstract

Librarian from rural Iowa.

Dates: 1973-2000

Helen Shediwy Scheetz memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0677
Abstract

The youngest daughter of immigrants reflects on growing up in Iowa towns during the Depression.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1988

Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract

Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.

Dates: 1984-1992

Janette Ryan-Busch papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0675
Abstract

Organic farmer and activist from Johnson County, Iowa.

Dates: 1989-2006

Jean Huffey papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0303
Abstract

Elementary schoolteacher and substitute teacher; active in PFLAG and groups promoting LGBTQ inclusion within the Lutheran Church.

Dates: 1977-2019

Jeanne Van Kley papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0388
Abstract

Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-1998

Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1156
Abstract

Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.

Dates: 1908-1982

Joan Blundall papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0486
Abstract

Social worker who developed support services for rural families during the 1980s farm crisis in Iowa.

Dates: 1986-1998

Josephine Gruhn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0382
Abstract

Britt, Iowa-born member of the Iowa House of Representatives and vice-chair of the Committee on Agriculture during the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Dates: 1982-1992

Mabel Korver Van Haaften memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0409
Abstract

Dutch-American farmwoman in early nineteenth century Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1986

Madge Clark Girard papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract

Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1991

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  • Repository: Iowa Women's Archives X
  • Subject: 1981-1990 X
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1991-2000 19
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2001-2010 8
Farmers 8
Rural schools 8
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Rural girls 7
Iowa 6
Scrapbooks 6
Social participation 5
Administrative records 4
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Correspondence 4
Country life 4
Depressions -- 1929 4
Stock Market Crash, 1929 4
Teaching 4
Women -- Political activity 4
Women in public life 4
1961-1970 3
Immigrant families 3
Legislators 3
Rural conditions 3
Women -- Societies and clubs 3
Clayton County (Iowa) 2
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Community organization 2
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Dutch American women 2
Immigrants 2
Johnson County (Iowa) 2
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O'Brien County (Iowa) 2
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African American women -- Iowa 1
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Ames (Iowa) 1
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Benton County (Iowa) 1
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Cherokee County (Iowa) 1
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Des Moines (Iowa) 1
Dickinson County (Iowa) 1
Doon (Iowa) 1
Emmet County (Iowa) 1
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Farms 1
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Food law and legislation 1
Fort Dodge (Iowa) 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
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Harrison County (Iowa) 1
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Names
Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-2015 2
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 2
Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 2
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
American Association of University Women 1
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Anderson, Helen 1
Ashby, Rhoda 1
Baxter, Elaine (1933-2021) 1
Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
Berg, Orville 1
Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Bloom, Amy 1
Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
Bruggmann, Charles 1
Bruggmann, Dominique 1
Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Carl, Janet (1948-) 1
Carlson, Agnes Bollesen 1
Carr, Martha Ashby 1
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-) 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
Cleona Township Women's Club (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Cohen, Gertrude (1913-2016) 1
Conklin, Charlene, 1929-2022 1
Corning, Joy (1932-2017) 1
Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
Dix family 1
Dix, Dorothy Pearl Unmack, 1908-1997 1
Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
Duncan, Bob 1
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America 1
Evans, Alpha, 1918- 1
Fae Ridge Farm (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Ferns, Grace, 1909- 1
Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
Geiger, Nira, 1901- 1
Geiken, Freida, 1895- 1
Gentleman, Julia (1931-) 1
Giddings, Marie, 1908- 1
Girard family 1
Girard, Madge Clark, 1904-2000 1
Glickman, Miriam Wijkman 1
Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938- 1
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 1
Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 1
Harper, Mattie 1
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 1
Harris family 1
Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921- 1
Huffey, Jean, 1932- 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Women's Committee 1
Iowa Organic Growers and Buyers Association 1
Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
Iowa. General Assembly 1
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 1
Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer 1
Kausch, Lani 1
Keir family 1
Kipp, Alice, 1918- 1
Knievel, Helen A. 1
Kuehl, Curt 1
Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 1
Lipsky, Joan (1919-2015) 1
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 1
Lonergan, Joyce, 1934- 1
Losby, Jan L. 1
Mahaska County Farm Bureau. Women's Committee 1
McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
McKenzie, Bettie 1
McLay, Angus 1
McLay, Annabelle J. 1
Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
Milloy, Nancy Ashby 1
Mohr, Charlotte 1
Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
Mumford, Ruth, 1908- 1
Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934- 1
Northeast Iowa Regional Library System 1
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 1
O'Brien County Farm Bureau Women (Iowa) 1
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943- 1
Omega Township Women's Club (O'Brien County, Iowa) 1
Orr, Joann, 1923-2017 1
Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays 1
Pelzer, Ruth 1
Republican Party (Iowa) 1
Ryan-Busch, Janette, 1955- 1
Sallee, Dorothy, 1906- 1
Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
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