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A. Louise Mays papers
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Alice Kelley papers
University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.
Alice McMurry papers
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Bernice Zimmer papers
Bettie McKenzie papers
Beverly Barnes Fix papers
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Catharine King Herr papers
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Clara Steen Skott papers
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dale McCormick papers
Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.
E. Virginia Mowry papers
Newton, Iowa teacher who later worked as an adminstrative assistant to James Cash Penney of J. C. Penney Company.
Edna Means papers
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement
A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ellen Hanson Mason papers
Diaries chronicle Ellen Hanson Mason's life on the family farm in rural northeast Iowa.
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
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