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Connie McBurney papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0888
Abstract

Journalist and 1996 congressional candidate.

Dates: 1996-2002

Constance Frick Irwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0208
Abstract

Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1918-1995

Cora Belle Pollock papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0706
Abstract

Elementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Dates: 1909-1996

Cornelia Cameron papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0198
Abstract

Internationally recognized peat geologist from Iowa City.

Dates: 1903-1995

De Jong Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract

Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.

Dates: 1852-2011

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

Donna Schmidt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0856
Abstract

University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa

Dates: 1938-2010

Dorothy Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0780
Abstract

Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Dates: 1850-1994

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

Dorothy Paul papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0349
Abstract

Iowa City peace activist and educator who was executive director of the UNA-USA Iowa Division from 1976 to 1996.

Dates: 1955-2016

Edith Reed Atkinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0251
Abstract

Singer and radio-script editor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Atkinson performed in a song-and-dance act with her brothers Wallace and Cecil Reed from 1935 to 1944.

Dates: 1935-1997

Edna Means papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract

Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.



Arrangement

A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.

Dates: 1908-1986

Elizabeth Miller Richards papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0737
Abstract

Politician and women's rights activist from Red Oak, Iowa,who ran for Iowa state representative in 1966.

Dates: 1929-1996

ERA Iowa 1992 records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0305
Abstract

Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.

Dates: 1980-1993

Esther Everett papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0880
Abstract

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

Dates: 1911-2008

Evelyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0126
Abstract

Cookbooks, newsletters, and other publications of the Radio Homemakers who broadcast over KMA and KFNF in southwest Iowa.

Dates: 1924-2021

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Frances Graham papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0862
Abstract

Amateur historian and clubwoman from Fayette County, Iowa.

Dates: 1912-2010

Georgana Falb Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0435
Abstract

A participant in the Camp Fire Girls between 1940 and 1954; materials include correspondence, scrapbooks and a memoir.

Dates: 1939-2002

Gertrude Cohen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0358
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives, 1965-1966, and the first Jewish woman elected to the Iowa Legislature.

Dates: 1964-1991

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University of Iowa 17
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Democratic Party (Iowa) 8
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 7
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United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 5
American Association of University Women 4
Grinnell College 4
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 4
League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Iowa 4
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 3
Daughters of the American Revolution 3
Iowa State College 3
Republican National Committee (U.S.) 3
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
United Nations 3
University of Iowa. College of Nursing 3
American National Red Cross 2
Camp Fire Girls. Iowana Council 2
Fox, Margaret, 1912-2010 2
Grand View College 2
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 2
Iowa Civil Liberties Union 2
Iowa Civil Rights Commission 2
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 2
Iowa Cornets (Basketball team) 2
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs 2
Iowa League for Nursing 2
Iowa State Teachers College 2
Iowa Women's Political Caucus 2
Jew, Jean Y. 2
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 2
League of Women Voters of Iowa 2
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 2
Mason, Kären 2
Muscatine Migrant Committee 2
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League 2
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 2
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 2
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 2
Radcliffe College 2
Republican National Convention 2
Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997) 2
United Nations Association of the United States of America 2
University of Iowa. College of Pharmacy 2
University of Iowa. Department of Physical Education for Women 2
University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 2
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives 2
White family 2
Women's Professional Basketball League 2
World Conference on Women 2
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 2
AIDS Coalition of Johnson County (Iowa) 1
Alan Guttmacher Institute 1
Alfred University 1
Algona High School (Algona, Iowa) 1
Alliance for the Mentally Ill 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1
American Association for the United Nations 1
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1
American Association of Dental Schools 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Basketball League 1
American Business Women's Association. Grant Wood Chapter 1
American Dental Association 1
American Dental Hygienists' Association 1
American Nurses Association 1
Americans for Religious Liberty 1
Ankeny High School (Ankeny, Iowa) 1
Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
Anothor Mother for Peace (Association). Northeastern Iowa Chapter 1
Arizona State University 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Artists In Action (Muscatine, Iowa) 1
Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women 1
Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967 1
Attlee, Felicity 1
Attlee, Martin 1
Attlee, Violet 1
Audiovisual Education Association of Iowa 1
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
B'nai Jeshurun Temple (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1916-1997 1
Bamford, Helen, 1902-1994 1
Barnes, Irston R. 1
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Becker, Ruth Salzmann (1922-2007) 1
Berg, Anna Margaret Skramstad 1
Berg, Mary J. (Mary Jaylene), 1950- 1
Bettendorf Public Library (Bettendorf, Iowa) 1
Birgen family 1
Birgen, Lorinda "Laura", 1898-1963 1
Birgen, Martina 1
Birkby, Evelyn, 1919 - 2021 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999 1
Bolin, Molly, 1957- 1
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