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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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Arlene Jens papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0499
Abstract
Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.
Dates:
1962-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Artists in Action (Muscatine, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0414
Abstract
Muscatine organization of area artists who opened a shop and organized an annual craft fair, classes, and craft demonstrations.
Dates:
1976-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Dates:
1884-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Azalia Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0650
Abstract
Mitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.
Dates:
1911-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Burrell Nichols papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0668
Abstract
Arrangement
Mother from Ames, Iowa who died of polio in 1955.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1944-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Coffin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0045
Abstract
City hostess and policewoman from Waterloo, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Fassbinder papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0410
Abstract
Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.
Dates:
1958-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara M. Calderon papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract
Arrangement
Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-1968
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernadine Solberg papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Dates:
1855-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0194
Abstract
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
Dates:
1943-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Leary papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0030
Abstract
Educator, author, collector of children's books.
Dates:
1878-1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0179
Abstract
A women's study club in Percival, Iowa that was founded in 1922.
Dates:
1929-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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