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Ortha P. Neff papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract

Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.

Dates: 1944-2006

Pauline Lyon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0202
Abstract

Waterloo, Iowa, native who served in WAVES during World War II and later worked for the American Red Cross.

Dates: 1884-1994

Peg Mullen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0082
Abstract

Anti-Vietnam War activist whose son, Michael, was killed by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam in 1970.



Arrangement

Copies of the hardcover and paperback versions of "Friendly Fire" and a hardcover copy of "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" are shelved in the printed works collection.

Dates: 1966-2010

Proteus Club (Des Moines) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0096
Abstract

Women's study club organized in 1896 by college graduates for their intellectual improvement.

Dates: 1896 - 2024

Roberta Pendleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0341
Abstract

Sioux City, Iowa resident who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1943-1996

Rosalie Braverman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0259
Abstract

Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.

Dates: 1929-2010

Rosemary Tharp papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0114
Abstract

Cedar Falls native who served in the WAVES during World War II.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1940-1994

Rowene Danbom papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0494
Abstract

Journalist who worked at the International News Service in Des Moines, Iowa during World War II and became its first woman bureau chief.

Dates: 1941-1987

Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0489
Abstract

Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.

Dates: 1915-2002

Ruth Hager Cousin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0522
Abstract

Trained as a nurse between 1917 and 1920, and worked as a school nurse in Iowa Falls and Marshalltown, Iowa from 1931 to 1965.

Dates: 1914-1985

Ruth Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0498
Abstract

Journalist who worked for the Stars and Stripes in postwar Europe.

Dates: 1957-2002

Sue M. Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0130
Abstract

Republican Party activist and officer of Iowa and National Federations of Republican Women, 1950s-1970s.

Dates: 1934-1996

Sylvia M. Stoesser papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0047
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate in 1928 with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. She was the first woman chemist to work for Dow Chemical Company.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1952-1992

Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0776
Abstract

Booklet: "Fifty Years of Growth and Service: Ladies Auxiliary to the Department of Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1929-1979."

Dates: 1979

Virginia Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0058
Abstract

Community activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1829-2010

War Brides of World War II papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0215
Abstract

1995 honors thesis of University of Iowa undergraduate student, Rachel Casteel.

Dates: 1946-1996

Welch and Angrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0095
Abstract

Material relating to the Heart of Hawkeye Council of Campfire Girls, The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Iowa Department of the Woman's Relief Corps.

Dates: 1880-1995

Wes Bartlett memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0755
Abstract

A Collection of Memories of the Algona Prisoner of War Camp, 1943-1946, compiled by Wes Bartlett.

Dates: 1943 - 1946

Willing Workers Club (Fayette County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0246
Abstract

A social and benevolent women's club initially formed as a Red Cross sewing club during World War I.

Dates: 1918-1987

Zella May Gerber papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0282
Abstract

A secretary who worked in Alaska in 1943 and at the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant in Tennessee from 1944 to 1945.

Dates: 1943-1947

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State University of Iowa 5
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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 2
United States. Army Nurse Corps 2
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Allen, Benita, 1911-1983 1
American Academy of Neurology. Women's Auxiliary 1
American Nurses Association 1
Angrick, William 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Aydelotte, Myrtle K. (Myrtle Kitchell) 1
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1916-1997 1
Bartlett, Wes 1
Black Hills Playhouse (Theater group) 1
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Boller, Betty, 1924- 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Boyum, Bernice Larson, 1922- 1
Braverman, Rosalie, 1910-2010 1
Burgess family 1
Burgess, Nellie 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Camp Algona (Algona, Iowa) 1
Camp Fire Girls 1
Camp Shows, Inc. 1
Casteel, Rachel 1
Child, Charlotte Joiner 1
Clark, Marion Jones, 1916-2011 1
Coe College 1
Colorado. Department of Highways 1
Costantino, A. Mori, 1924 - 2020 1
Costantino, Anthony 1
Council of National Defense (Washington, D.C.). Woman's Committee 1
Cousin, Ruth Hager, 1895-1994 1
Coy, Gretchen Anton, 1923- 1
Crary, Julia 1
Curtiss-Wright Corporation 1
Dakota Dunes Country Club (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) 1
Danbom, Rowene, 1920- 1
Daughters of Mokanna 1
Davis, Laura Hutchison, 1916-1993 1
Davis, Lloyd L. 1
Denison, Ella Strong 1
Des Moines Garden Club 1
Des Moines Ladies Band 1
Des Moines Women's Club 1
Dow Chemical Company 1
Dow Chemical Physics Lab 1
Dryden, Muriel Anne, 1911-1993 1
Easton, Elsie 1
Eddy, Susan 1
Ehrhardt, Louis 1
England, Artis 1
Entre Nous (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Evans, Mary 1
Fairfield Junior High School (Fairfield, Iowa) 1
Fatherson, Editha Phillips 1
Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa 1
Fisher, Gladys 1
Fleming, Everett A. 1
Fleming, Minerva Etheline Ford 1
Fleming, Vesie 1
Gaines, Blanca Vasquez, 1918- 1
Gerber, Zella May, 1904-1997 1
Gingery, Joseph 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Grinnell College 1
Hageboeck, Eleanor Gildner, 1908- 1
Hager, Thora 1
Hamblin family 1
Hamblin, Dora Jane, 1920-1993 1
Horsley, Jess 1
Horsley, Maureen 1
Iglesias, Marvel 1
Illinois Training School for Nurses 1
Iowa American Revolution Bicentennial Commission 1
Iowa Broadcasters Association 1
Iowa City Human Relations Commission (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Iowa Civil Liberties Union 1
Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Council of Republican Women 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
Iowa League for Nursing 1
Iowa Lutheran Hospital (Des Moines, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Iowa Medical Society. Woman's Auxiliary 1
Iowa Nurses' Association 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
Irwin, Constance, 1913-1995 1
Jacobsma, Irma 1
Jamison, Esther, 1901-2001 1
Johnson, Margaret Langland, 1912-1972 1
Johnson, Ursula 1
Joiner Family 1
Joiner family 1
Joiner, Charles W. 1
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