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A. Louise Mays papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract
Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994."At Arm's Length" and "Raw Footage of Louise Mays" (1992) VHS. This videocassette includes a documentary on aging in Iowa, produced by Mary Frances Evans, in which Mays participated. It is followed by the unedited interview with Mays. Other persons featured on the videotape are: Estelle Alleman, Margaret Allen, Betty Atwater, Margaret Bastian, MaryEllen Buck, Robert Buck, Eileen Dawson, King Dawson, Venita Ellison, B. J.Fedler, Harold Forrester, Mildred Forrester, Helen Gore, Wayne...
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adelia St. John Gates papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract
Arrangement
Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1863-1865
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice Kelley papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0485
Abstract
University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.
Dates:
1888-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice Kipp papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Dates:
1986-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Arrangement
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1897-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Dates:
1912-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Bess Newcomer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0663
Abstract
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Dates:
1936-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
Beverly Barnes Fix papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Dates:
1974-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bonnie Kern papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract
Arrangement
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.
Arrangement
Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Dates:
1945 - 2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie Lindahl papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0638
Abstract
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Dates:
1875-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catharine King Herr papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract
Arrangement
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1976-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Christine Dutson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Dates:
1954 - 2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dale McCormick papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0513
Abstract
Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.
Dates:
1958-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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