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Abbie Romey papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract

Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Dates: 1891-1993

Adelia St. John Gates papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract

Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1863-1865

Alberta Evelyn Swan Lehman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0367
Abstract

Correspondence and scrapbook of student years at Simpson Conservatory in Indianola, Iowa.

Dates: 1874-1932

Archie L. Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract

Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.

Dates: 1963-1998

Bernadine Solberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract

Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.

Dates: 1855-1980

Bernice Zimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract

Diaries of an Iowa woman.

Dates: 1932-2010

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

Bertha Korn Tucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract

Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.

Dates: 1920-1999

Bette Brooks Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract

Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.

Dates: 1941-1993

Betty Rugen Schutter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0477
Abstract

Scrapbook and correspondence to her parents during her student years at the State University of Iowa.

Dates: 1937-1980

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

Bonnie Kern papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract

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

C. Pauline Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0627
Abstract

An outstanding athlete and the first woman to receive an athletic letter at the University of Iowa. She graduated in 1923.

Dates: 1920 -1985

Catherine Gayle Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract

Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.

Dates: 1910-1991

Catherine Snedeker Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0009
Abstract

Illinois student who moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Dates: 1854-1871

Christie York papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0701
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate and laboratory assistant who was active in student government and served as a steward in AFSCME Local 12.

Dates: 1950-2001

Christine Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract

Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.

Dates: 1952-2022

Doris Bender Hughes papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0326
Abstract

Student who attended the University of Iowa in the 1940s and later became a teacher and child-welfare worker.

Dates: 1945-2013

Dorothy and Warren Wirtz papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0117
Abstract

Brother and sister from Keokuk, Iowa who attended the State University of Iowa and pursued careers as a composer and French professor, respectively.

Dates: 1915-2012

Dorothy Misbach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0468
Abstract

Educator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.

Dates: 1890-1999

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Ellsworth Community College (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 3
State University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 3
State University of Iowa. School of Nursing 3
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American National Red Cross 2
Braunwarth, Sarah, 1853-1927 2
Grinnell College 2
Iowa Falls High School (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 2
Iowa State University 2
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 2
Mason, Kären 2
Moore, Mary Ellen, 1919-1998 2
United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 2
University of Northern Iowa 2
Whitehead, Floy Eugenia, 1913-1998 2
Alfred University 1
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Allen, George Eugene, 1887-1944 1
Allen, Hilda Ellyson, 1988- 1
Allen, Philip, 1915- 1
Allen, Sewell E., 1913-1975 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Basketball League 1
American Junior Red Cross 1
American National Red Cross. Nursing Service 1
American Patients Association 1
American Theological Society 1
Ames Middle School (Ames, Iowa) 1
Andrews, Neta (1895-1981) 1
Ankeny High School (Ankeny, Iowa) 1
Anneberg, Dorothy Spencer 1
Arizona State University 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
Aydelotte, Myrtle Kitchell (1917-2010) 1
Baker, Hermione Georgette Allen, 1917- 1
Barnes, Irston R. 1
Barnes, Lea Boyce 1
Bartlett family 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Beisswenger family 1
Beisswenger, Don 1
Beisswenger, Joyce, 1930-2002 1
Beisswenger, Judy 1
Benjamin Franklin High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Bergmann family 1
Bergmann, Gustav (1906-1987) 1
Bergmann, Leola Nelson, 1912-2011 1
Beth El Jacob Synagogue (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Bethel College (North Newton, Kan.) 1
Bettendorf Public Library (Bettendorf, Iowa) 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Black Hills Playhouse (Theater group) 1
Bohlmann, Rachel E. 1
Bohnen, Salesian Father Laurent 1
Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
Bourret, Joan Liffring-Zug (1929-2022) 1
Bowen, Howard Rothmann, 1908- 1
Boyd, Susan, 1927- 1
Boyd, Willard L. (Willard Lee), 1927- 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Bridgeport Central High School (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
Briggs, John Ely, -1952 1
Briggs, Nellie Upham, -1973 1
Briggs, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1918-2004 1
Briggs, Wilbur 1
Broer, Bethany 1
Broer, Faye York 1
Broer, Jacob 1
Broer, Kyle 1
Buchanan, Ellen 1
Byers, Rosetta M. 1
Camp Fire Girls 1
Camp Shows, Inc. 1
Cargill Corn Starch and Syrup (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
Carter, Lucille Ketchum (1913-2009) 1
Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission 1
Central College (Pella, Iowa) 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Charleton, Gwyn 1
Cherry, Kittredge, 1957- 1
Chicago Housing Authority 1
Chicago Theological Seminary 1
Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
Clark, Dene 1
Clark, Esther Treptow, 1905-2004 1
Clark, Marion Jones, 1916-2011 1
Coe College 1
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