Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 10
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.
Bowersox and Osborn Family papers
The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.
Carrie Kelly Beatty papers
Young woman who came to Hancock County, Iowa in 1868; her experiences were recorded in the book, A Prairie Rose, by Bertha E. Bush.
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Laura Gibson Smith papers
Casey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.
Margaret Bobbitt Ettleman papers
The 1951 memoir describes rural life in nineteenth century Iowa and Indiana.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Margaret Strang Corothers papers
Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Mildred Fox Everett papers
Iowa native who became a homesteader in South Dakota, and later returned to Iowa to raise her five children on a farm.
Rosa Knutson Gangestad papers
The daughter of Norwegian immigrants who came to Humboldt County, Iowa in 1872. Reflections on pioneer life through handwritten stories and letters for her grandchildren.
Ruth Schaefer papers
A Latin teacher who served as friend and mentor to Vietnamese refugees in the Iowa City community.
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life 9
- 20th century 7
- Archives (groupings) 7
- Rural women 7
- Women -- 19th century 7
- Women in agriculture 7
- Farm life 6
- Farmers 6
- Personal papers 6
- Diaries 5
- Autobiographies 4
- Memoirs 4
- Oral histories 4
- Photographs 4
- Teachers 4
- Teaching 4
- 2001-2010 2
- Agriculture 2
- Authors 2
- Correspondence 2
- Families 2
- Family papers 2
- Nineteenth century 2
- Women in education 2
- 1901-1910 1
- 1911-1920 1
- 1921-1930 1
- 1931-1940 1
- Andover (Mass.) 1
- Benton County (Iowa) 1
- Cass County (Iowa) 1
- Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 1
- Chugwater (Wyo.) 1
- College students 1
- Cultural artifacts 1
- Deuel County (S.D.) 1
- Drawings (visual works) 1
- Education 1
- Farm management 1
- Filipinos 1
- Financial records 1
- Fort Pierre (S.D.) 1
- Hancock County (Iowa) 1
- Homemakers 1
- Humboldt County (Iowa) 1
- Immigrant families 1
- Immigrants 1
- Iowa 1
- Iowa City (Iowa) 1
- Johnson County (Iowa) 1
- Jones County (Iowa) 1
- Journalists 1
- Latin teachers 1
- Lawyers 1
- Lowell (Mass.) 1
- Manila (Philippines) 1
- Marion County (Ind.) 1
- Marriage 1
- Matanaska Valley (Alaska) 1
- Minnehaha County (S.D.) 1
- Norway (Iowa) 1
- Norwegian American women 1
- Norwegian Americans 1
- Refugees 1
- Rural families 1
- Rural schools 1
- School superintendents 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Shueyville (Iowa) 1
- Sidney (Iowa) 1
- Soldiers 1
- Stanley County (S.D.) 1
- Story County (Iowa) 1
- Tama County (Iowa) 1
- Twentieth century 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Vietnamese 1
- Voluntarism 1
- Volunteers 1
- Voyages and travels 1
- Walker (Iowa) 1
- Widows 1
- Women 1
- Women in journalism 1
- Wright County (Iowa) 1
- Wyoming (Iowa) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Beatty family 1
- Beatty, Carrie Kelly, 1853-1925 1
- Bobbitt family 1
- Bobbitt, Benjamin Claiborne 1
- Bobbitt, Laura Littlefield 1
- Bobbitt, Randolph 1
- Bowersox family 1
- Bowersox, Dorothy LeVier 1
- Bowersox, Edna 1
- Bowersox, Elizabeth C. 1
- Bowersox, Fred 1
- Bowersox, Jan Erkert 1
- Bowersox, Lizzie E. 1
- Bowersox, Mary Margaret Shuey 1
- Bowersox, Thomas L. 1
- Bush, Bertha E. 1
- Childress, Elizabeth 1
- Corothers family 1
- Corothers, Margaret Strang, 1871-1934 1
- Cripliver family 1
- Dunn, Leslie 1
- Ettleman, Margaret Bobbitt, 1877-1984 1
- Everett, Mildred Fox, 1880- 1
- Farnham, Almira Ames, 1800-1896 1
- Gangestad, Rosa Knutson, 1867-1943 1
- Hurless, Ruia Bowersox 1
- Knutson family 1
- McDowall family 1
- Osborn family 1
- Osborn, Inez Smyth 1
- Osborn, Mary A. 1
- Osborn, Thomas F. 1
- Osborn, Wayland 1
- Schaefer, Ruth, 1909-2002 1
- Shuey, Jacob 1
- Smith, Earle Sloan, 1890-1985 1
- Smith, Laura Gibson, 1891-1973 1
- State University of Iowa 1
- Strang family 1
- Strang, John 1
- United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Volunteers, 11th Regiment 1
- University of Iowa 1
- Wherry family 1
- Wherry, Don, -1948 1
- Wherry, Elizabeth, 1893-1956 1
- Wherry, John, 1919- 1
- Wherry, Richard, 1925- 1
- Wilson family 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Yessler, Alta Bowersox 1 ∧ less