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Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

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

Dates: 1986-2006

Alma Erickson Swanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract

Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1897-2000

Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract

Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)

Dates: 1884-1993

Bertha Hedges papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0846
Abstract

A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.

Dates: 1870-2014

Carrie V. Talcott papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0687
Abstract

Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.

Dates: 1913-1981

Elizabeth Wherry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
Abstract

Farm magazine writer.

Dates: 1904-1960

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 Ver Meer papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0408
Abstract

Farmwoman and member of the Porkettes, the women's auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Producers Council.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991-1998

Gladys Homan papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0261
Abstract

Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.

Dates: 1871-2004

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

Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract

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

Dates: 1984-1992

Lucy Van Voorhis White papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0074
Abstract

Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.

Dates: 1861-1939

Luella Rynerson Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0861
Abstract

Home extension course, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other early twentieth century rural organization publications collected by an Iowa farm wife.

Dates: 1884-1989

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

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

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

Dates: 1890-2002

McGill Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0543
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.

Dates: 1885-2005

Nancy Rash papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0881
Abstract

Multi-generation history, correspondence, and photographs of a farming family in Union, Iowa.

Dates: 1860-2012

Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

Sarah White papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0077
Abstract

Correspondence and circle letters of a northwestern Iowa farmwoman.

Dates: 1915-1979

Shale and Wolf Families letters

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0425
Abstract

Family correspondence recording farm life in northern Iowa and the Dakota territory, primarily from a farm woman's perspective.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1878-1999

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Names
White family 2
White, Stanley V., 1901- 2
Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
American Association of University Women 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
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Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Burns, Jean I. 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Bywater, Jessie Cannon 1
Cripliver family 1
Dykstra family 1
Erickson family 1
Farthing, Carol 1
First United Methodist Church (Randalia, Iowa) 1
Friendship Haven, Home for the Retired (Fort Dodge, Iowa) 1
Geiger, Nira, 1901- 1
Geiken, Freida, 1895- 1
Halferty family 1
Hedges family 1
Hedges, Bertha, 1887-1978 1
Hedges, Charles 1
Hedges, Mildred 1
Hensley, Grace Ricketts 1
Homan family 1
Homan, Charles Foote, 1897-1988 1
Homan, Delmar Charles, 1927- 1
Homan, Gladys, 1899-1996 1
Hughes, Harold E. (Harold Everett), 1922-1996 1
Iowa Porkettes 1
Iowa State College. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Keir family 1
Keran, Amy Halferty 1
Kipp, Alice, 1918- 1
Lawrence family 1
Leff family 1
Leff, Nellie Josephine, 1884-1972 1
McGill family 1
McGill, Ada Lee, 1891-1974 1
McGill, Eliza Cromer Law, 1861-1922 1
McGill, James 1
McGill, Ora Pearl, 1894-1924 1
McKenzie, Bettie 1
Miller family 1
Miller, Albert, 1843-1938 1
Miller, Ellen Mowrer, 1848-1922 1
Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
Mowrer family 1
Mowrer, Milton 1
Mowrer, Nathan 1
Mowrer, Peter (Physician) 1
Mowrer, William 1
Mumford, Ruth, 1908- 1
National Pork Board (U.S.) 1
Petersen, Archie 1
Petersen, Hans 1
Petersen, Katie, 1874-1972 1
Petersen, Thelma, 1909- 1
Rash, Nancy, 1952- 1
Reese Family 1
Reese family 1
Reese, Donald, 1916-1998 1
Reese, Henrietta Nordyke 1
Reese, Howard, 1881-1979 1
Reese, Richard Thomas, 1831-1910 1
Rhoad, Sarah A. Mowrer 1
Ricketts, Ruth Keran 1
Rumble, Edna 1
Rumble, Marie, 1894-1974 1
Sallee, Dorothy, 1906- 1
Schmuecker family 1
Schmuecker, Hazelle Keir, 1907-2007 1
Schobert family 1
Schobert, Wilda Jean, 1920-2002 1
Schroeder, Alvena, 1899-1989 1
Schueler, Allegra, 1904- 1
Seipp, William 1
Shale family 1
Shale, Lizzie 1
Shale, Mary 1
Shale, Sophia 1
Simpson College 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Gertrude, 1899-1989 1
Smith, Luella Rynerson, 1876-1948 1
State University of Iowa 1
Swanson family 1
Swanson, Alma Erickson, 1889-1985 1
Swanson, Augusta Gustafson, 1862?- 1
Swanson, Carl W., -1952 1
Swanson, Carl, 1850-1922 1
Swanson, Ellen 1
Swanson, Greta, 1924- 1
Swanson, Julia 1
Swanson, Signe, 1917- 1
Swanson, Thor, 1922- 1
Talcott, Carrie V., 1890-1981 1
Ten Benton County Women Oral History Project (Vinton, Iowa) 1
Tylee, Ben 1
Tylee, Frances 1
Tylee, Magdalena, 1894-1988 1
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