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Edith Neal papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0660
Abstract

Known as the Vietnam Mail Lady, Neal corresponded with servicemen stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.

Dates: 1931-1997

Ellen Mowrer Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract

Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.

Dates: 1856-1994

Esther Treptow Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0893
Abstract

Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1919-2010

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

Jean Kern papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0631
Abstract

Professor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.

Dates: 1921-1988

Lois Wescott papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0437
Abstract

Geology graduate of the University of Iowa who traveled to Japan and Venezuela to work for oil companies.

Dates: 1860-2001

Lola Moeller Zook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0462
Abstract

Newspaper editor whose papers relate to her career as a journalist and the years she spent in occupied Japan following World War II.

Dates: 1909-2004

Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract

A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.

Dates: 1917-1988

Marcella Henley Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0681
Abstract

Memoir, Confetti, of her life in Albia, Iowa, correspondence, and journals of books read since 1959.

Dates: 1938-2012

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Virginia Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0058
Abstract

Community activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1829-2010

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Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
Albia Woman's Club (Albia, Iowa) 1
American National Red Cross 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Clark, Dene 1
Clark, Esther Treptow, 1905-2004 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Grinnell College 1
Henley, Bill 1
Henley, Pearl Smith 1
Human Resources Research Organization 1
Jones, Joe Allen 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Keir family 1
Kern, Jean B. 1
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 1
Lais, Leonore Evans 1
Martini, Lorena 1
Miller family 1
Miller, Albert, 1843-1938 1
Miller, Ellen Mowrer, 1848-1922 1
Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
Moeller, Dorothy 1
Moeller, George Walter, -1932 1
Moeller, Leslie George 1
Moeller, Maggie Zetner, -1955 1
Moolick family 1
Mowrer family 1
Mowrer, Milton 1
Mowrer, Nathan 1
Mowrer, Peter (Physician) 1
Mowrer, William 1
Neal, Edith, 1916-2007 1
Nelson, Margaret 1
Pierson High School (Pierson, Iowa) 1
Rhoad, Sarah A. Mowrer 1
Richey, Pearl 1
Rumble, Edna 1
Rumble, Marie, 1894-1974 1
Schmuecker family 1
Schmuecker, Hazelle Keir, 1907-2007 1
Schofield, Mary Anne 1
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940 1
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 1
Smith, Marcella Henley, 1909-2012 1
Society for Technical Communication 1
Tylee, Ben 1
Tylee, Frances 1
Tylee, Magdalena, 1894-1988 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
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Wescott, Ada Mae 1
Wescott, Eugene 1
Wescott, Geneva Moolick 1
Wescott, Gwendolyn 1
Wescott, Lois, 1916- 1
Wescott, Roy 1
Wescott, Verne 1
Wilson, Thyria Kathleen 1
Zook, Lola M. 1
Zook, Maurice, -1981 1