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Norse Club records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0845
Abstract

Founded in Iowa City in 1937 to celebrate its members' Norwegian heritage.

Dates: 1930-2009

OOP (Marion, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0528
Abstract

Women's study club founded in 1867 by young women who had attended the Marion Female Seminary.

Dates: 1867-2005

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

Otilia Gomez Savala papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract

Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1937-2014

Patricia Geadelmann papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0812
Abstract

Feminist and physical educator who was a strong proponent of the ERA and Title IX.

Dates: 1965-2006

Patricia Hillard papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0715
Abstract

Papers document Hillard's work as Western U.S. Division Director of La Leche League International.



Arrangement

Administrative, Boxes 1-10

Area Conferences, Boxes 10-11

Area Coordinator of Leaders (ACL), Boxes 11-13

Areas, Boxes 13-18

Biographical information, Box 1

Conferences, Boxes 18-20

Correspondence, Boxes 20-25

Division Director, Boxes 25-27

Financial Records, Boxes 27-29

Human Relations Enrichment (HRE), Boxes 29-30

Other Divisions, Boxes 31-33

Photographs, Box 46

Professional Liaison Department (PLD), Boxes 33-34

Programs, Boxes 34-35

Publications, Box 35-42

Publicity, Box 42

Regional Administrators (RA), Boxes 42-44

Resource and Development (R&D), Boxes 44-46

Dates: 1963-2001

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

Penny Furgerson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0280
Abstract

Pakistan-born Indian American pharmacist, dancer, choreographer, and theatre director who founded the Gateway Dance Theatre, a Des Moines-based company specializing in multiethnic dance.

Dates: 1937-2023

Pi Lambda Theta, Theta Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0817
Abstract

Honorary society for women students in the field of education.

Dates: 1918-2008

Pilot International Club of Iowa City records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0788
Abstract

Organization to promote improvement of conditions and treatment for brain-related disorders.

Dates: 1939-2012

Polly Ely papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0829
Abstract

Peace and civil rights activist who was a longtime member of Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist in Cedar Rapids.

Dates: 1937-2008

Priscilla Ann Mabie Stewart papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0168
Abstract

Art historian and Professor who settled in Florida where she organized and directed a wild bird hospital.

Dates: 1932-2007

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

Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

Robinson-Lacy Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0424
Abstract

Correspondence diaries, scrapbook, and genealogical information regarding this Dubuque-area family.

Dates: 1852-2001

Rose Stoops papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0542
Abstract

Teacher, farm woman and nurse who later participated in many community organizations in Grinnell, Iowa.

Dates: 1916-2004

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 Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0482
Abstract

The first female pilot in Appanoose County and active in the local Democratic Party.

Dates: 1925-2002

Ruth Hamilton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0192
Abstract

Teacher and world traveler who served in the New Hampshire legislature.

Dates: 1895-2008

Ruth Salzmann Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract

Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.

Dates: 1858-2012

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United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 4
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City High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 3
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 3
Iowa State Teachers College 3
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 3
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 3
League of Women Voters of Iowa 3
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 3
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 3
United Nations Association of the United States of America 3
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives 3
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 2
Camp Fire Girls. Iowana Council 2
Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 2
Democratic Party (Iowa) 2
Fox, Margaret, 1912-2010 2
Gerber, John C. 2
Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 2
Iowa Civil Liberties Union 2
Iowa Civil Rights Commission 2
Iowa Mothers Association 2
Iowa State College 2
Iowa State University 2
League of United Latin American Citizens 2
League of Women Voters (Des Moines, Iowa) 2
Mullen, Peg, 1917-2009 2
Muscatine Migrant Committee 2
Shrauger family 2
Shrauger, Harold, Sr. 2
Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997) 2
UNICEF 2
United Nations 2
United States. Navy 2
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World Conference on Women 2
Adams family 1
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
Adams, Monroe Milton 1
Aguilera, Maria Mercedes, 1936-2013 1
Albia Woman's Club (Albia, Iowa) 1
Alfred University 1
Algona High School (Algona, Iowa) 1
Alliance for the Mentally Ill 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 Dental Association 1
American Dental Hygienists' Association 1
American Educational Research Association 1
American Mission Upper Nile 1
American Mothers, Inc. 1
American Patients Association 1
American Psychological Association 1
American Theological Society 1
Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
Anothor Mother for Peace (Association). Northeastern Iowa Chapter 1
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Arizona State University 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Associated Country Women of the World 1
Associated Country Women of the World. Conference 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Athens History Circle (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Audiovisual Education Association of Iowa 1
Audubon Society of Manchester (Iowa) 1
Barcelo family 1
Barceló, Nancy V., 1946- 1
Bartlett family 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
Becker, Ruth Salzmann (1922-2007) 1
Beisswenger family 1
Beisswenger, Don 1
Beisswenger, Joyce, 1930-2002 1
Beisswenger, Judy 1
Benedict Home (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Bergmann family 1
Bergmann, Gustav (1906-1987) 1
Bergmann, Leola Nelson, 1912-2011 1
Bethel Evangelical Secondary School 1
Bettendorf Public Library (Bettendorf, Iowa) 1
Birkby, Evelyn, 1919 - 2021 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Bixler, Genevieve Knight 1
Bohnen, Salesian Father Laurent 1
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