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Verda Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract

Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.

Dates: 1965-2004

Verna Moulton Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0145
Abstract

Maquoketa, Iowa, native who owned and operated Spencer's Harmony Hall with her husband from 1912 to 1962.

Dates: 1899-1994

Vina Thorpe papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0253
Abstract

Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.

Dates: 1893-1995

Viola Nesfield Owen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0801
Abstract

Mother and piano teacher living in Wisconsin, cooresponding with family in Waterloo, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-1963

Violet Greiner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0389
Abstract

Farmwoman, columnist, and volunteer from Blairsburg, Iowa who wrote a monthly column for the Rural Electric Cooperative News.

Dates: 1960-1999

Virginia Harper papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0199
Abstract

One of five African American women who integrated Currier Hall at the University of Iowa in 1946. Former president of the Fort Madison chapter of the NAACP.

Dates: 1940-2005

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

Virginia Randolph papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0115
Abstract

Anamosa, Iowa, poet and niece of Elizabeth Wherry.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1929-1993

Wagner Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0475
Abstract

Materials from the lives of two sisters, Eva Wagner and Grace Wagner Patten, and one sister-in-law, Alice Nicolet Wagner.

Dates: 1903-1994

Wanda Edgerton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0603
Abstract

Occupational therapist who worked in Venezuela, 1940-1942, and at Ohio State University.

Dates: 1938-1993

West Branch Women's Clubs (Cedar County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0782
Abstract

Records from seven women's clubs in West Branch, Iowa.

Dates: 1903-1999

Wilda Jean Schobert papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0180
Abstract

Percival, Iowa farm woman and club woman.

Dates: 1840-2000

Wiley Mayne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0448
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Iowa, 1967-1975. Campaign and office files relating to his political career.

Dates: 1966-1974

Willard Marsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0794
Abstract

Graduate of the Writers' Workshop, a musician and an English professor.

Dates: 1940-1970

William O. Weaver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0416
Abstract

Iowa attorney. Correspondence, campaign literature, clippings, and photographs relating to the Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952.

Dates: 1951-1954

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

Willow Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0487
Abstract

Diaries describe growing up in rural Iowa in the 1960s and the period from1992 to 2001.

Dates: 1960-2001

Wilma Belden Collins papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0079
Abstract

Grimes, Iowa, newspaper columnist and editor.

Dates: 1921-1992

Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Iowa records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0751
Abstract

Organization dedicated to legislative and educational efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency and support woman's suffrage.

Dates: 1874-2006

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Des Moines Chapter) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0240
Abstract

Members of the Des Moines chapter of WILPF studied government policy on nuclear testing, the draft , the war in Vietnam, and the arms race.  They held informational rallies and demonstrations and maintained a vigorous letter-writing campaign.

Dates: 1962-2008

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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 3
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 3
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 3
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 3
League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Iowa 3
Republican National Committee (U.S.) 3
United Nations 3
United Nations Association of the United States of America 3
United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 3
University of Iowa. Department of Physical Education for Women 3
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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 3
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Blanchard, Ruth 2
Blanchard, Thomas 2
Bourret, Joan Liffring-Zug (1929-2022) 2
Coe College 2
Conlin, Roxanne Barton, 1944- 2
Daughters of the American Revolution 2
Davis, Aldeen 2
Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 2
Ellsworth family 2
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 2
Everett family 2
Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 2
Fox, Margaret, 1912-2010 2
Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 2
Gerber, John C. 2
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 2
Grefe, Mary 2
Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 2
International Wives Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
Iowa Civil Liberties Union 2
Iowa Civil Rights Commission 2
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 2
Iowa Falls High School (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 2
Iowa League for Nursing 2
Iowa Nurses' Association 2
Iowa Porkettes 2
League of United Latin American Citizens 2
League of Women Voters (Des Moines, Iowa) 2
Monroe Busy Bees (4-H Club : Mahaska County, Iowa) 2
Moore, Mary Ellen, 1919-1998 2
Muehl, Lois Baker 2
Mullen, Peg, 1917-2009 2
Muscatine Migrant Committee 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Federation of Republican Women 2
National Women's Conference (1st : 1977 : Houston, Tex.) 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 2
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 2
Older Women's League (U.S.) 2
Pennsylvania State University 2
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 2
Prentiss family 2
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 2
Shrauger family 2
Shrauger, Harold, Sr. 2
Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997) 2
State University of Iowa. School of Nursing 2
United Service Organizations (U.S.) 2
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 2
United States. Army 2
University of Chicago 2
University of Colorado Boulder 2
University of Iowa. College of Pharmacy 2
University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 2
University of Iowa. Women's Resource and Action Center 2
University of Minnesota 2
White, Stanley V., 1901- 2
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