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Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.

Dates: 1986-2006

Days Gone By: Reminiscences of Northwest Iowa

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0601
Abstract

Typescript of an oral history project by Sibley-Ocheyedan High School students interviewing six residents of Osceola County.

Dates: 1992

Della Marie Koppenhaver papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract

Two reminiscences of an Iowa woman detailing farm life in the 1920s.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1958-1981

Denise O'Brien papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0156
Abstract

Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.

Dates: 1964-2007

Dorothy Fox Wurster papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0700
Abstract

Mahaska County farm girl who won a blue ribbon in the Mahaska County's Boys' 4-H.

Dates: 1942-1987

Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0449
Abstract

Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1982-1999

Edith Sprout memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0682
Abstract

Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1978

Elizabeth Buckwalter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0916
Abstract

Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.

Dates: 1817-2013

Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0465
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1991

Ellen Hanson Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0820
Abstract

Diaries chronicle Ellen Hanson Mason's life on the family farm in rural northeast Iowa.

Dates: 1929-1994

Esther Everett papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0880
Abstract

Home economics professor raised on a farm in Lacey, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-2008

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Eva Donelson Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0355
Abstract

Native of Ogden, Iowa, and professor of nutrition at colleges in the United States and Brazil.

Dates: 1994

Faye T. Wookey papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0699
Abstract

Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2000

Florence Krogman Schumacher papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA1075
Abstract

"My Iowa Farm Memories," by Florence Krogman Schumacher, describes growing up on a farm in Plymouth County, Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: 2000

Gladys Moeller Lage papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0768
Abstract

Personal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.

Dates: 1912-1992

Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0394
Abstract

Farmwoman, basketball player on Newhall High School girls state championship team in 1927.

Dates: 1892-1997

Inez Christen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0469
Abstract

Transcribed diaries of a Northeast Iowa hired girl, farmwoman and mother.

Dates: 1922-2000

Irene Rock Zindel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0702
Abstract

Scott County, Iowa, farm woman who was active in 4-H and the Farm Bureau.

Dates: 1930-1998

Jean Minish Stoner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0461
Abstract

Farmwoman, writer, and community volunteer near Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Dates: 1957-1997

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De Cook, Besse De Prenger 1
De Cook, Ernest 1
De Cook, Mary Van Zante 1
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Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 1
Everett, Esther, 1910-2008 1
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Farm Bureau (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Giddings, Marie, 1908- 1
Grow family 1
Grow, Esther Mae Christensen, 1891-1993 1
Hagen, Mary Doebel, 1922- 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Briana 1
Harris, Larry 1
Hein, Gwendolyn Johnson, 1911-1997 1
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Howard, Alice Hanson 1
Iowa Farmers Union 1
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Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame 1
Jeffers, Marie Trimble 1
Kipp, Alice, 1918- 1
Koppenhaver, Della Marie, 1904- 1
Lage, Gladys Moeller, 1912-2006 1
Leff family 1
Leff, Nellie Josephine, 1884-1972 1
Leith, Gladys Trimble, 1907- 1
Lynch, Elizabeth Fagan, 1908- 1
Meade, Magdalen (1913-2005) 1
Michigan State College 1
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Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
Monroe Livewires (4-H Club : Mahaska County, Iowa) 1
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National Family Farm Coalition (U.S.) 1
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Newhall High School (Newhall, Iowa) 1
Nicholson, Homer 1
Nicholson, Irma 1
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company 1
O'Brien, Denise, 1949- 1
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Olson, Melba Gardemann, 1909-2000 1
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Reese, Donald, 1916-1998 1
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Reese, Richard Thomas, 1831-1910 1
Rumble, Edna 1
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Schumacher, Florence Krogman (1919-2011) 1
Schutte, Lois Mcintyre, 1928- 1
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Spencer, LeRoy W. 1
Spencer, Verna Moulton, 1887-1982 1
Sprout, Edith, 1895-1979 1
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Stoner, Jean Minish, 1920- 1
Teeple, Velma Skott, 1913-2005 1
Tri Mu 4-H Club (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Trimble family 1
Trimble, James 1
Trimble, Mary Pyle, 1884- 1
United Nations. General Assembly 1
University of Minnesota 1
Van Haaften, Mabel Korver, 1901-1989 1
Van Kley, Jeanne, 1916- 1
Van Voorhis family 1
Van Voorhis, Charles Smith 1
Van Voorhis, Frank Lemert 1
Van Voorhis, Lucy A. Dennis 1
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