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Janis Torrence Laughlin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0125
Abstract

Muscatine County Supervisor from 1976 to 1982 and Representative in the Iowa Legislature from 1983 to 1985.

Dates: 1976-1990

Jean Berry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0297
Abstract

Des Moines-based artist.

Dates: 1989-2000

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

Jean Jew Justice Committee records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: IWA0444
Abstract

The committee organized in 1990 to support Jean Jew in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1982-1999

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

Jo Rabenold papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0191
Abstract

Iowa City activist who collected lesbian and feminist publications during the 1970s and 1980s.

Dates: 1965-1983

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

Johnie Hammond papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0563
Abstract

Democratic representative and senator in the Iowa legislature.

Dates: 1970-2006

Johnson County ERA Coalition records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0138
Abstract

Organized in Iowa City to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution of the state of Iowa.



Arrangement

"New Strategies, Old Obstacles in the Fight for Equality: An Analysis of the 1992 Iowa ERA Referendum Campaign," is shelved in the Iowa Women's Archives printed works collection (fHQ.1236.5.U6 F45 1993).

Dates: 1984-1993

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

Joy Smith Lewallen memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0738
Abstract

This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1985

Judy Polumbaum papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0914
Abstract

Professor of journalism at The University of Iowa.

Dates: 1987-1997

Karen Goodenow papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0233
Abstract

Elementary and high school teacher who has served on local and state boards of education.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1980-1993

Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0263
Abstract

Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.

Dates: 1977-1999

Katy Gammack papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0749
Abstract

Multi-client lobbyist, co-publisher of "Money and Politics Iowa," and an advocate for women's rights.

Dates: 1976-2007

Kittredge Cherry and Audrey Lockwood

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0759
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1970-2009

La Casa Latina (Sioux City, Iowa)

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0726
Abstract

Non-profit organization that helped recent Latino immigrants and non-English speakers in the Siouxland area obtain human services, healthcare, housing, and other basic needs.

Dates: 1989 - 2007

League of Women Voters, Sioux City records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0229
Scope and Contents The League of Women Voters of Sioux City records date from 1978 to 1993 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Sioux City Journal and the Des Moines Register chronicling local debates in the late 1970s about Sioux City's urban renewal and city government structure. Clippings on how other Iowa cities were handling these issues in their communities are included. The home rule charter folder includes the proposal submitted by the Sioux City Charter Commission to the mayor and city council, which called for re-structuring the city's government; among other things, the new charter would have given more power to the mayor. The proposed charter was hotly debated for several months and defeated in a narrow vote; the League opposed the charter. The urban renewal newspaper clippings describe conflicts over how to maintain a vital business sector, and an investigation into charges that a developer had misused...
Dates: 1978-1993

Leah A. Jones papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0304
Abstract

Chicago native and graduate of the University of Iowa.



Arrangement

Two folders:  folder 1 shelved in SCVF;  folder 2 shelved in map case.

Dates: 1983-1997

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University of Iowa 14
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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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