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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Alice Kipp papers
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Almira Ames Farnham papers
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Bess Newcomer papers
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Beverly Everett papers
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Carol Hodne papers
Iowa farm activist who served as the first executive director of the North American Farm Alliance during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Catharine King Herr papers
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Charlotte Faxon papers
Teacher who traveled widely during the Civil War period.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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.
Days Gone By: Reminiscences of Northwest Iowa
Typescript of an oral history project by Sibley-Ocheyedan High School students interviewing six residents of Osceola County.
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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 Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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- Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 2
- Svoboda, Jane, 1944- 2
- Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
- Adams, Janet, 1937- 1
- Albia Woman's Club (Albia, Iowa) 1
- Anderson, Helen 1
- Anderson, Marilyn 1
- Ashby, Rhoda 1
- Balster, Stella Werden 1
- Barker, Patti 1
- Basgall, Carol 1
- Baxter, Elaine, 1933- 1
- Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
- Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
- Bevin, Nancy 1
- Bishop, Nellie, 1904-1999 1
- Bloom, Amy 1
- Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
- Bobbitt family 1
- Bobbitt, Benjamin Claiborne 1
- Bobbitt, Laura Littlefield 1
- Bobbitt, Randolph 1
- Boedeker family 1
- Boedeker, Margaret Talcott 1
- Bollin, Kathy 1
- Bonham, Catherine 1
- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
- Browneller, Martha Jean Nicholson, 1920- 1
- Browneller, Max 1
- Bruggmann, Charles 1
- Bruggmann, Dominique 1
- Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
- Buckwalter, Elizabeth, 1817-1886 1
- Buckwalter, Mary Jane, 1852- 1
- Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
- Burgess family 1
- Burgess, Nellie 1
- Burns, Jean I. 1
- Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
- Carl, Janet, 1948- 1
- Carlson, Agnes Bollesen 1
- Carr, Martha Ashby 1
- Chapman, Kathleen Halloran, 1937- 1
- Christensen, Naomi 1
- Churchill, Isabella Van Osdall 1
- Clampitt, Frank T., 1860-1943 1
- Clark family 1
- Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
- Clark, Mary Stuart 1
- Coggon Ladies' Literary Society (Coggon, Iowa) 1
- Cohen, Gertrude, 1913- 1
- Conklin, Charlene, 1929- 1
- Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
- Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
- De Cook family 1
- De Cook, Besse De Prenger 1
- De Cook, Ernest 1
- De Cook, Mary Van Zante 1
- DeLand family 1
- DeLand, Ida Sherman 1
- DeLand, Mary Lurene Swope, 1896-1978 1
- Democratic Party (Iowa) 1
- Depot Museum (Fayette County, Iowa) 1
- Dix family 1
- Dix, Dorothy Pearl Unmack, 1908-1997 1
- Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
- Ducommun, Minnie, 1906-1988 1
- Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
- Dunn, Leslie 1
- Eddy, Pat 1
- Edgewood Community Center (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 1
- Ellen Hanson Mason, 1897- 1
- Elliott, Wende 1
- Ellsworth Community College (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 1
- Embree, Wilma 1
- Erickson family 1
- Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" 1
- Ettleman, Margaret Bobbitt, 1877-1984 1
- Everett, Edith 1
- Everett, Esther, 1910-2008 1
- Everett, Fred 1
- Faga, Linda 1
- Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company 1
- Farnham, Almira Ames, 1800-1896 1
- Farthing, Carol 1
- Faxon, Charlotte 1
- Ferns, Grace, 1909- 1
- First United Methodist Church (Randalia, Iowa) 1
- Francis, Betty 1
- Friendship Haven, Home for the Retired (Fort Dodge, Iowa) 1
- Gangestad, Rosa Knutson, 1867-1943 1
- Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
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