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Clara Steen Skott papers
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dale McCormick papers
Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Two reminiscences of an Iowa woman detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dora E. Mackay papers
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dora Jane Hamblin papers
Iowa native who wrote for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, LIFE magazine, and other periodicals.
Dorothy Clark papers
Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
E. Virginia Mowry papers
Newton, Iowa teacher who later worked as an adminstrative assistant to James Cash Penney of J. C. Penney Company.
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Edna Herbst papers
Videotaped interview with Herbst about the history of television broadcasting in Iowa, 1998.
Arrangement
One folder shelved in SCVF.
Edna Means papers
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement
A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Elizabeth Buckwalter papers
Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.
Elizabeth Miller Richards papers
Politician and women's rights activist from Red Oak, Iowa,who ran for Iowa state representative in 1966.
Ellen Hanson Mason papers
Diaries chronicle Ellen Hanson Mason's life on the family farm in rural northeast Iowa.
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Everett papers
Home economics professor raised on a farm in Lacey, Iowa.
Esther J. Walls papers
Mason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Esther Sietmann Warner Dendel papers
Esther Thornhill papers
Ida Grove, Iowa mother and homemaker who worked at a hatchery and at a hamburger shop before marrying.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Treptow Clark papers
Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.