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Alma Erickson Swanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract

Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1897-2000

Annette Lingelbach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0639
Abstract

Journalist who wrote for Des Moines and Waterloo newspapers.

Dates: 1937-1996

Barbara M. Calderon papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract

Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1945-1968

Betty Rugen Schutter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0477
Abstract

Scrapbook and correspondence to her parents during her student years at the State University of Iowa.

Dates: 1937-1980

Burlington Clubwomen's Time Capsule records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0910
Abstract

Time capsule documenting women's community involvement, as captured in 1896 and 1946.

Dates: 1896-1946

Christine Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0585
Abstract

Appanoose County 4-H leader, farmer, and teacher.

Dates: 1945

Doris Bender Hughes papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0326
Abstract

Student who attended the University of Iowa in the 1940s and later became a teacher and child-welfare worker.

Dates: 1945-2013

Dorothy Sprout Place memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0384
Abstract

Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Eliza Hickok Kesler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0040
Abstract

Cedar Rapids native who worked on the radio show 'The Quiz Kids.'

Dates: 1946-1947

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

Georgia Peeso Haygarth papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0524
Abstract

Includes diaries of Georgia Peeso Haygarth of Spencer, Iowa and of her father, Melvin Moses Peeso, who was a logger in California.

Dates: 1912-1915

Jeanne Jones Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0795
Abstract

Nurse Jeanne Jones Cook grew up in Iowa and Colorado. She completed her training with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1945.

Dates: 1939-1949

Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1156
Abstract

Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.

Dates: 1908-1982

Joiner Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0815
Abstract

Iowa family that corresponded during World War II.

Dates: 1941-1945

Lenora Backes papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0010
Abstract

Diaries of an Iowa farm woman.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1944-1946

Lillian Moore Scales papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0292
Abstract

Estherville, Iowa-born homemaker and teacher who was active in literary, political, and religious groups in Des Moines.

Dates: 1938-1991

Lola Jean McNall papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0141
Abstract

University of Iowa student who was active in the YWCA.

Dates: 1936-2002

Lucia Thorne papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0894
Abstract

Professional singer from Clinton, Iowa who was a featured vocalist on WHO Des Moines radio for fifteen years in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: 1943-1957

Mae Irene Ludemann papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0641
Abstract

High school history teacher who traveled to Europe in 1929 and recorded her experiences in a diary.

Dates: 1926-1943

Margaret Langland Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0816
Abstract

Nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1925-1972

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State University of Iowa 5
Anderson, Christine Hanson, 1912- 1
Backes, Lenora 1
Burlington Clubwomen's Time Capsule (Burlington, Iowa) 1
Burlington Federation of Women's Clubs (Burlington, Iowa) 1
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Calderon, Barbara McDonald, 1915- 1
Camp Fire Girls. Iowana Council 1
Camp Hitaga 1
Camp Hiwela 1
Carmichael, S. D. 1
Carmichael, Thelma 1
Central College (Pella, Iowa) 1
Child, Charlotte Joiner 1
Christ, Ruth Moe, 1943- 1
Clark, Marion Jones, 1916-2011 1
Cook, Jeanne Jones, 1927-1993 1
Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
Eimen, Martha, 1912-1997 1
Erickson family 1
Foster, Georgana Falb, 1928- 1
Gerber, Zella May, 1904-1997 1
Glad Girls of Grove 4-H (Cass County, Iowa) 1
Harper family 1
Haygarth, Georgia Peeso, 1882-1952 1
Houghton Mifflin Company 1
Hughes, Doris Bender 1
Hunter, Mary Ankeny, 1870- 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Iowa Lutheran Hospital (Des Moines, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa State Fair 1
Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission 1
Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer 1
Johnson, Margaret Langland, 1912-1972 1
Joiner Family 1
Joiner family 1
Joiner, Charles W. 1
Joiner, Melvin 1
Joiner, Otis W. 1
Kesler, Eliza Hickok, 1909- 1
Kirk, Mary Lou, 1929-2004 1
Kountz, Alice Cynthia Stong, 1916-1994 1
Kountz, Roy Rupert, -1971 1
Lewis, Thelma B., 1904-1988 1
Lingelbach, Annette, 1908-1996 1
Lozier, Margaret Joiner 1
Ludemann, Mae Irene, 1900-1997 1
Marshall Plan 1
McNall, Lola Jean 1
Mercy Hospital (Burlington, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Mercy School of Nursing (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Moore, Mary Anne Lozier 1
Morris, Arlene Roberts (1926-2016) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
Peeso family 1
Peeso, Melvin Moses 1
Pennsylvania State University 1
Place, Dorothy Sprout, 1921- 1
Place, Harlan 1
Prairie City High School (Prairie City, Iowa) 1
Ross, Marie 1
Scales, Lillian Moore, 1901-1991 1
Schutter, Betty Rugen, 1917- 1
Schuyler, Philippa, 1932-1967 1
Sheets, George Marsh, 1887-1974 1
Simonsen, Merle 1
Simonsen, Virginia Tanner, 1923- 1
Sioux County Women's Chorus (Iowa) 1
State University of Iowa. Department of Bacteriology 1
State University of Iowa. Department of History 1
Stong family 1
Stong, Ernest Lee, 1878-1933 1
Stong, Martha Alice Tobias, 1878-1961 1
Swanson family 1
Swanson, Alma Erickson, 1889-1985 1
Swanson, Carl W., -1952 1
Swanson, Greta, 1924- 1
Swanson, Signe, 1917- 1
Swanson, Thor, 1922- 1
Tama County Historical Society 1
Tanner, A. J. 1
Tanner, Anna Johns 1
Thorne, Lucia, 1918-2009 1
United Nations 1
United States. Army Nurse Corps 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers 1
United States. Cadet Nurse Corps 1
University of California, Los Angeles 1
University of Iowa. College of Nursing 1
University of Wisconsin 1
Van Wyngarden, Mildred, 1918-2005 1
Van Wyngarden, Philip Ray 1
Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Von Schrader, Mary 1
WHO (Radio station : Des Moines, Iowa) 1
YWCA of Greater Des Moines 1
Young Women's Christian Association (State University of Iowa) 1
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