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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.
Beverly Everett papers
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Burchard Family papers
The family lived in New York state until 1862 when they moved to Illinois before settling in Iowa in 1910. The diaries are from several generations.
Carol Hodne papers
Iowa farm activist who served as the first executive director of the North American Farm Alliance during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Denise O'Brien papers
Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.
Donna Schmidt papers
University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa
Elizabeth Buckwalter papers
Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.
Ericka Peterson-Dana papers
Organic farmer and activist in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Faye T. Wookey papers
Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Irene Hoover papers
Farmwoman, 4-H leader, and volunteer who was active in the Farm Bureau and the Master Farm Homemakers Guild.
Janette Ryan-Busch papers
Organic farmer and activist from Johnson County, Iowa.
Lillian Ronk papers
West Central Iowa farmwoman known locally as 'the flower lady.'
Mahaska County Farm Bureau Women's Committee records
The committee splintered from the extension service in 1955 and became the largest political and corporate organization representing farmer interests in Iowa.
Arrangement
4 folders, shelved in SCVF.
Margaret Johnson papers
Farm woman, teacher, and recipient of the Master Farm Homemaker award in 1970.
Marie Rumble papers
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Marjorie Vandervelde papers
Photojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.
Martha Jean Nicholson Browneller papers
Mahaska County, Iowa, farm woman who was active in 4-H and rural organizations. She recorded her daily activities in her diaries between 1935 and 1973.
Muscatine Migrant Committee records
Migrant agency that advocated for agricultural laborers employed temporarily on eastern Iowa farms.
Myrtle Keppy papers
Champion hog breeder, farm woman, 4-H leader, and president of the Iowa Porkettes.
Rose Stoops papers
Teacher, farm woman and nurse who later participated in many community organizations in Grinnell, Iowa.
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- O'Brien, Denise, 1949- 3
- Hodne, Carol 2
- Mahaska County Farm Bureau. Women's Committee 2
- Rural Women's Project (University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives) 2
- Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
- American Association of University Women 1
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- Associated Country Women of the World. Conference 1
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- Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
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- Bollin, Kathy 1
- Browneller, Martha Jean Nicholson, 1920- 1
- Browneller, Max 1
- Buckwalter, Elizabeth, 1817-1886 1
- Buckwalter, Mary Jane, 1852- 1
- Buell family 1
- Buell, Levina Willis 1
- Burchard family 1
- Burchard, Celestia 1
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- Burgess, Nellie 1
- Cadena, Juan 1
- Cadena, Marta 1
- Carney, Lloyd 1
- Carney, Velma, 1907-2004 1
- Christensen, Naomi 1
- Easton, Elsie 1
- Eddy, Pat 1
- Elliott, Wende 1
- Embree, Wilma 1
- England, Artis 1
- Everett family 1
- Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 1
- Fae Ridge Farm (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
- Faga, Linda 1
- Farthing, Carol 1
- Fisher, Gladys 1
- Garst, Liz 1
- Garst, Mary 1
- Grabner, Barbara 1
- Gradwell, Shelley 1
- Griffieon, LaVon 1
- Grinnell College 1
- Grinnell Historical Museum (Grinnell, Iowa) 1
- Grinnell Tuesday Club (Grinnell, Iowa) 1
- Hansen, Betty 1
- Harris, Briana 1
- Harris, Larry 1
- Hoover, Irene 1
- Horsley, Jess 1
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- Iglesias, Marvel 1
- Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
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- Iowa Porkettes 1
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- Jacobsma, Irma 1
- Jesina, Sheryl 1
- Johnson, Margaret, 1915- 1
- Johnson, Ursula 1
- Keppy, Myrtle, 1924-2009 1
- Kirschman, Fred 1
- Lauter, Laura 1
- Linn, Martha 1
- Ludwigs, Doris 1
- Mills family 1
- Mills, Ernest 1
- Mills, Glenn 1
- Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
- Monroe Busy Bees (4-H Club : Mahaska County, Iowa) 1
- Muscatine Migrant Committee 1
- National Family Farm Coalition (U.S.) 1
- National Farmers Organization (U.S.) 1
- National Farmers' Union (U.S.) 1
- National Women's Conference (1st : 1977 : Houston, Tex.) 1
- Newberg, Lois 1
- Nicholson, Homer 1
- Nicholson, Irma 1
- North American Farm Alliance 1
- Northwestern Bell Telephone Company 1
- Oetken, Randy 1
- Organic Consumers Association 1
- Oskaloosa High School (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1
- P.E.O. Sisterhood 1
- Petersen, Archie 1
- Petersen, Hans 1
- Petersen, Katie, 1874-1972 1
- Petersen, Thelma, 1909- 1
- Peterson-Dana, Ericka 1
- Puttmann, Sally, 1936- 1
- Rhines, Ilo 1
- Ronk, Lillian, 1922- 1 ∧ less