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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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
Alpha Evans papers
Rural middle school teacher who chaired the Iowa committee to revise teacher standards in the 1970s.
Amelia McNeill papers
Farm woman who served as secretary of Monona Co. Rural Electrification Association for more than 20 years.
Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history
Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Anita Crawford papers
Buchanan County farmwoman who was active in the Farm Bureau and county historical society.
Ann Larimer Papers
Queen City, Iowa, resident who wrote to her husband while he was serving in the Civil War.
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Audubon Society of Manchester (Iowa) records
Eastern Iowa women's study and social club.
Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement
Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Barbara Fassbinder papers
Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.
Bertha Hedges papers
A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.
Bess Newcomer papers
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) records
A women's study club in Percival, Iowa that was founded in 1922.
Beulah Wiederrecht papers
Correspondence between Wapello farm woman and two Polish families after World War II.
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- White, Stanley V., 1901- 2
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
- Ackeman, Karen 1
- Adams, Janet, 1937- 1
- Albia Woman's Club (Albia, Iowa) 1
- American Academy of Neurology. Women's Auxiliary 1
- American Legion Auxiliary 1
- Anderson, Christine Hanson, 1912- 1
- Anderson, Helen 1
- Anderson, Marilyn 1
- Angrick, William 1
- Anneberg, Dorothy Spencer 1
- Anton, Judy 1
- Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
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- Associated Country Women of the World 1
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- Audubon Society of Manchester (Iowa) 1
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- Baker, Carl 1
- Balster, Stella Werden 1
- Barker, Patti 1
- Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
- Basgall, Carol 1
- Bassett, Ella 1
- Baxter, Elaine, 1933- 1
- Bayard Women's Club (Iowa) 1
- Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
- Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
- Becker, Virginia, 1918- 1
- Bell, Eleanor Nissen, 1925- 1
- Bennett, Mary 1
- Berg, Orville 1
- Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) 1
- Bevin, Nancy 1
- Birkby, Evelyn, 1919 - 2021 1
- Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
- Bishop, Nellie, 1904-1999 1
- Block, Marjorie Bertalot, 1923-2007 1
- Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
- Bloom, Amy 1
- Blunt, Dorothy 1
- Bob's Creek Neighbors (Club : Allamakee County, Iowa) 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, June Lundy, 1922- 1
- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
- Briggs family 1
- Briggs, Lela Powers, 1896-1953 1
- Brindley family 1
- Brinton, Ada Mae Brown, 1891-1988 1
- Brown, Gerald 1
- Browneller, Martha Jean Nicholson, 1920- 1
- Browneller, Max 1
- Browning Literary Club (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
- Bruggmann, Charles 1
- Bruggmann, Dominique 1
- Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
- Bucey family 1
- Buchanan County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
- Buckley, Susan C. 1
- Buckwalter, Elizabeth, 1817-1886 1
- Buckwalter, Mary Jane, 1852- 1
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