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Alma Marie Kouba Kress papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0405
Abstract

Buchanan County elementary school teacher and clubwoman.

Dates: 1925-2006

Arlene Jens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0499
Abstract

Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1962-2006

Bernice Leary papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0030
Abstract

Educator, author, collector of children's books.

Dates: 1878-1977

C. Pauline Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0627
Abstract

An outstanding athlete and the first woman to receive an athletic letter at the University of Iowa. She graduated in 1923.

Dates: 1920 -1985

Christine Dutson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Dates: 1954 - 2002

Clara Steen Skott papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract

Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.

Dates: 1899-1994

Constance Frick Irwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0208
Abstract

Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1918-1995

Dora Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0221
Abstract

Sculptor and art teacher who traveled and studied sculpture across Europe and North America.

Dates: 1915-2017

Dorothy Misbach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0468
Abstract

Educator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.

Dates: 1890-1999

Emmylou Krohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0634
Abstract

Teacher, columnist, and textbook author from Council Bluffs area.

Dates: 1940-1998

Geraldine Greenlee papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0474
Abstract

Received her master's degree from the Department of Physical Education for Women at the State University of Iowa in 1952.

Dates: 1945-2004

Germaine Mayer Blake papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0271
Abstract

Elementary school teacher who taught for thirty-three years at the Catholic Visitation Grade School in Stacyville, Iowa.

Dates: 1948-1997

Gladys Miller Ferguson papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0316
Abstract

Teacher and high school girls basketball coach from Mechanicsville, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1919-1978

Gladys Spayde papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0042
Abstract

Stage actress who spent her childhood in Saskatchewan and was a teacher in Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1932-1982

Gladys Talcott Rife papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0284
Abstract

Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.

Dates: 1920-2002

Grace Morris Allen Jones papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0277
Abstract

Burlington, Iowa born educator and wife of Dr. Laurence C. Jones, founder of Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1927-1975

Hazel Rogers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0214
Abstract

Teacher who attended the Iowa State Teachers College between 1939 and 1941.

Dates: 1932-1987

Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0142
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate and teacher whose papers include correspondence and scrapbook files relating to her work on a variety of social issues.

Dates: 1922-2006

Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0390
Abstract

Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1913-1952

Icey Lenora Teel Harling papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0238
Abstract

Lecturer, author and playwright who ran the Teel School of Expression in Davenport, 1918-1934 and was later a writer and editor for the Durant News.

Dates: 1902-1973

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American Mission Upper Nile 1
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Baker, Carl (poet) 1
Benjamin Franklin High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Bethel Evangelical Secondary School 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Bixler, Genevieve Knight 1
Black Hills Playhouse (Theater group) 1
Blake, Germaine Mayer 1
Camp Shows, Inc. 1
Catholic Visitation School 1
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Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cheek, Eugene Lloyd, 1953-1990 1
Childress, Elizabeth 1
Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
Club Les Dames (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Cochran family 1
Cochran, Lee W. (Lee William) 1
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Coe College 1
Council on Postsecondary Accreditation 1
Cruikshank, Rena 1
Curtis High School (Staten Island, New York, N.Y.) 1
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Depot Museum (Fayette County, Iowa) 1
Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
Dobbs, Ella Victoria 1
Dutson, Christine, 1954- 1
Eastern Iowa League for Nursing 1
Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett (Company) 1
Elliott, Jane, 1933- 1
Elson, Mary Johnston, 1914-2011 1
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 1
Erick Hawkins Dance Company 1
Fairfield Junior High School (Fairfield, Iowa) 1
Farquhar, Marian, 1917-2006 1
Ferguson, Gladys Miller, 1881-1976 1
Fox, Steven 1
Fox, William B. 1
Geadelmann, Patricia L. 1
Greenlee, Geraldine 1
Grefe, Mary 1
Hamilton, Carter 1
Hamilton, Ruth, 1898-2008 1
Happy Hour Club (Buchanan County, Iowa) 1
Harling, George 1
Harling, Icey Lenora Teel, 1878-1964 1
Harling, Maurice 1
Harper family 1
Harper-Bardach, Phyllis (1928-2015) 1
Helen McGehee (Company) 1
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Illinois School for the Deaf 1
International Council for Adult Education 1
Iowa Citizens' League for Nursing 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Nurses' Association. Fifth District 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa. State Board of Regents 1
Irwin, Constance, 1913-1995 1
Jens, Arlene (1926-2014) 1
Johnson, Martin 1
Johnson, Ruth Pitkanen, 1908-1992 1
Jones, Grace Morris Allen, 1876-1928 1
Jongewaard, Jennie Ver Ploegh 1
Jose Limon Dance Company 1
Kemp, Alice M. 1
Kress, Alma Marie Kouba, 1908-2006 1
Krohn, Emmylou, 1920- 1
Landhuis, Kim, 1943- 1
Lane, Ruth 1
Leary, Bernice E. (Bernice Elizabeth), 1890-1973 1
Lucas Hoving and Dance Co. 1
Malcolm Price Laboratory School 1
Mason, Dora, 1896-1999 1
Mason, Kären 1
Mattila, Juliet, 1942-2023 1
McBroom, Maude 1
McDonald, Helena Jongewaard, 1894-1989 1
McDonald, Thomas Fraser 1
McKeehan, George Washington 1
Mississippi State Board of Education 1
Moore, Mary Ellen, 1919-1998 1
Morris, Arlene Roberts (1926-2016) 1
National Advisory Council on Adult Education (U.S.) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Education Association of the United States. Department of Audiovisual Instruction 1
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