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Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Alice Kipp papers
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
Alice McMurry papers
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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.
Bernice Zimmer papers
Bess Newcomer papers
Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.
Beverly Barnes Fix papers
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Bonnie Kern papers
Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.
Arrangement
Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.
Christine Dutson papers
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dorothy Pearl Unmack Dix papers
Harrison County, Iowa-born schoolteacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
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.
Elizabeth R. Miller papers
Farm woman and Republican state legislator from Marshalltown, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ernella Van Horn papers
The second of four generations of women in her family to play basketball in Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Esther Everett papers
Home economics professor raised on a farm in Lacey, Iowa.
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
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.
Esther Treptow Clark papers
Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.
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