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Debra Jean Blake papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0327
Abstract

Journalist and professor who documented and analyzed Chicana women's lives, feminisms, and experiences of gender and sexuality.

Dates: 1975-2016

Democratic Activist Women's Network, District 1 records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0602
Abstract

Organization created to recruit, educate, and elect Democratic women to public office in Iowa.

Dates: 1981-2009

Dorothy Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0278
Abstract

Republican who served in Iowa House of Representatives from 1980 to 1994.

Dates: 1979-1995

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

Dorothy Rogers papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0750
Abstract

Dorothy Rogers worked for the volunteer program of the Patient Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from the beginning of the program in 1973 until her retirement in 1986.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1973-1986

Edith Reed Atkinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0251
Abstract

Singer and radio-script editor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Atkinson performed in a song-and-dance act with her brothers Wallace and Cecil Reed from 1935 to 1944.

Dates: 1935-1997

Edna Englert papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0604
Abstract

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



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-2005

Elaine Szymoniak papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0166
Abstract

Iowa State senator, Des Moines City Council member, and hearing and speech consultant.

Dates: 1974-2004

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

Embroiderers' Guild of America, Plum Grove Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0794
Abstract

The guild taught needlework skills and participated in shows.

Dates: 1975-2009

ERA Iowa 1992 records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0305
Abstract

Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.

Dates: 1980-1993

Four Cs of Johnson County records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0546
Abstract

Records of the local Community Coordinated Child Care.

Dates: 1974-2008

Four Seasons Garden Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0877
Abstract

This collection contains meeting minutes, annual reports, and scrapbooks of club activities.

Dates: 1970-2010

Francoise Martinet papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0719
Abstract

Ballerina and professor of dance at the University of Iowa from 1978-1997.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1978-1998

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 Lemme Reading Club records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: IWA0399
Abstract

African American reading club formed in 1984 by University of Iowa graduate students.

Dates: 1984-1998

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

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University of Iowa 14
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Republican Party (Iowa) 8
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 5
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Democratic Party (Iowa) 4
Drake University 4
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 4
State University of Iowa 4
Iowa Women's Political Caucus 3
National Organization for Women. Iowa 3
University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 3
University of Northern Iowa 3
American Association of University Women 2
Anderson, Margaret, 1928- 2
Artists In Action (Muscatine, Iowa) 2
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-) 2
Emma Goldman Clinic 2
Follon, Sue, 1942-1998 2
Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-2015 2
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 2
Henry, Phylliss, 1940- 2
Iowa City Women's Press 2
Iowa Cornets (Basketball team) 2
Iowa ERA Coalition 2
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 2
Iowa. General Assembly 2
Jew, Jean Y. 2
Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 2
Lemme, Helen 2
Lipsky, Joan (1919-2015) 2
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 2
Marian Rees Associates (Firm) 2
Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 2
Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 2
National Organization for Women. Dubuque Chapter 2
National Organization for Women. Johnson County-Iowa City Chapter 2
National Women's Political Caucus (U.S.) 2
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 2
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 2
Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays 2
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 2
Rape Victim Advocacy Program (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
Rees, Marian 2
Teaford, Jane (1935-) 2
Torrence Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014 (1926-2014) 2
University of Iowa. Women's Resource and Action Center 2
University of Iowa. Women's Studies Program 2
Weiss, Jane Alison 2
Women's Professional Basketball League 2
AIDS Coalition of Johnson County (Iowa) 1
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
Alan Guttmacher Institute 1
Allen, Benita, 1911-1983 1
Alternative Living for the Aging (Organization) 1
American Association for the United Nations 1
American Business Women's Association. Grant Wood Chapter 1
American Film Institute 1
American Institute of Commerce 1
American Women in Radio and Television Inc. 1
Americans for Religious Liberty 1
Anderson, Helen 1
Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
Ashby, Rhoda 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
Barclay, Winston 1
Barnes, Lea Boyce 1
Baxter, Elaine (1933-2021) 1
Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
Berg, Orville 1
Berry, Jean, 1938- 1
Berry, Vern, 1906-2004 1
Black Hawk County Women's Political Caucus (Iowa) 1
Blake, Debra J. 1
Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Bloom, Amy 1
Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
Bock, Lena Belle, 1904-2007 1
Bolin, Molly, 1957- 1
Boulware, Lois, 1903-1998 1
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
Braunwarth, Sarah, 1853-1927 1
Brine, Pauline 1
Bruggmann, Charles 1
Bruggmann, Dominique 1
Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
Bucklew, Jeanette, 1946- 1
Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
Bunkers, Suzanne L. 1
Burger, Betty M., 1920-2007 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Bush, George, 1924- 1
Campaign to Add Women to the Iowa Constitution 1
Campbell, Bonnie J., 1948- 1
Cano family 1
Carl, Janet (1948-) 1
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