Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 112

Abbie Romey papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract

Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Dates: 1891-1993

Adelia St. John Gates papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract

Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1863-1865

Alberta Evelyn Swan Lehman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0367
Abstract

Correspondence and scrapbook of student years at Simpson Conservatory in Indianola, Iowa.

Dates: 1874-1932

Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract

Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Archie L. Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract

Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.

Dates: 1963-1998

Asian American Coalition Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.052
Scope and Contents

The Asian American Coalition collection primarily documents the first ten years of the organization’s existence from 1998 to 2008 with a smaller percentage of documents being from after 2009 to 2014. The collection contains documents such as the founding constitution, an issues paper which laid out why the organization was necessary, internal emails between the original student leaders which highlight their goals as an organization, communications with the University administration where they expressed many of their demands to the University, fliers and meeting notes for the various events they hosted on campus and in the community, and early newspaper coverage of the organization from the Daily Iowan.

Dates: 1998 - 2014

Bernadine Solberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract

Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.

Dates: 1855-1980

Bertha Hedges papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0846
Abstract

A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.

Dates: 1870-2014

Bertha Korn Tucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract

Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.

Dates: 1920-1999

Beverly Barnes Fix papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract

Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.

Dates: 1974-2001

Black Student Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.006
Scope and Contents

BSU Records were actually publications of the group using various titles at different times - Pamoja, Challenger, and New Challenger. These titles are now in the University Serials and Journals Collection (RG01.0009.002).

Dates: 1975 - 1981

Bonnie Kern papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0797
Abstract

Iowa author who was a victim of sexual and physical abuse, served time in prison and later placed into Iowa's work release program.



Arrangement

Bonnie Kern's book, Proclivity, is shelved in the printed works collection in IWA.

Dates: 1945 - 2014

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

Catherine Snedeker Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0009
Abstract

Illinois student who moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Dates: 1854-1871

Christine Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract

Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.

Dates: 1952-2022

Cora Louise Scofield papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0779
Abstract

Iowa-born historian and author who attended Vassar College.

Dates: 1881-1912

Dorothy and Warren Wirtz papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0117
Abstract

Brother and sister from Keokuk, Iowa who attended the State University of Iowa and pursued careers as a composer and French professor, respectively.

Dates: 1915-2012

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

Dorothy Rubenstein papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0739
Abstract

Federal Civil Service employee who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Communication in 1932.

Dates: 1928-2004

Dr. Anthony Ferguson National Pan-Hellenic Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.056
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of materials related to the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Fraternities and Sororities on the University of Iowa campus. This collection is growing to represent our six active Black fraternities and sororities.

Dates: 2010 - 2022

Filtered By

  • Subject: College students X
  • Subject: Women X
  • Subject: Women X
  • Language: English X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Repository
Iowa Women's Archives 106
University of Iowa Archives 6
 
Subject
College students 105
Archives (groupings) 102
Personal papers 86
20th century 77
Photographs 77
∨ more
Iowa City (Iowa) 56
2001-2010 40
Scrapbooks 36
Correspondence 32
Cultural artifacts 29
Diaries 28
Families 28
Oral histories 28
Sound recordings 23
Teachers 23
College teachers 19
Memoirs 19
High school students 18
Speeches 17
Video recordings 17
Teaching 16
Women in higher education 16
Yearbooks 15
Women 14
Authors 13
Autobiographies 13
1991-2000 12
Des Moines (Iowa) 12
Women in education 12
Rural women 11
World War, 1939-1945 11
Administrative records 10
Iowa 10
African American women 9
Home economics 9
Photograph albums 9
Sports for girls 9
Sports for women 9
Women in agriculture 9
African American women -- Iowa 8
Voyages and travels 8
Women -- 19th century 8
1981-1990 7
Artists 7
Farm life 7
Marriage 7
Slides (photographs) 7
Volunteers 7
Women -- Political activity 7
1911-1920 6
Autograph albums 6
College athletes 6
Friendship 6
Girls 6
Journalists 6
Twentieth century 6
Women and War 6
Women in journalism 6
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 6
1901-1910 5
1921-1930 5
1941-1950 5
2011-2020 5
Ames (Iowa) 5
College administrators 5
College sports for women 5
Drawings (visual works) 5
High school teachers 5
Homemakers 5
Women in charitable work 5
Women lawyers 5
1931-1940 4
Bisexuals 4
Christmas cards 4
Class reunions 4
Divorce 4
Education 4
Educators 4
English teachers 4
Family papers 4
Gays 4
Lesbians 4
Librarians 4
Nurses 4
Nursing 4
Physical education for college students 4
Political campaigns 4
Posters 4
Rural families 4
Rural girls 4
Sexual minorities 4
Social workers 4
Transgender people 4
Washington (D.C.) 4
Women and the arts 4
Women in Christianity 4
Women in church work 4
Women in medicine 4
Women in nonprofit organizations 4
Women in public life 4
+ ∧ less
 
Names
State University of Iowa 38
University of Iowa 20
Iowa State Teachers College 5
Democratic Party (Iowa) 4
Iowa State College 4
∨ more
State University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 4
City High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 3
Drake University 3
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 3
University of Iowa. Department of Physical Education for Women 3
American National Red Cross 2
Grinnell College 2
Iowa State University 2
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 2
Moore, Mary Ellen, 1919-1998 2
Pennsylvania State University 2
State University of Iowa. Department of Physical Education for Women 2
State University of Iowa. School of Nursing 2
United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 2
University High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 2
University of Minnesota 2
University of Northern Iowa 2
Whitehead, Floy Eugenia, 1913-1998 2
Alfred University 1
American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1
American Association of Dental Schools 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Basketball League 1
American Dental Association 1
American Dental Hygienists' Association 1
American Home Economics Association 1
American Junior Red Cross 1
American Theological Society 1
Ankeny High School (Ankeny, Iowa) 1
Anneberg, Dorothy Spencer 1
Arizona State University 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Atalig, Angelica Lynn Rose 1
Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
Barcelo family 1
Barceló, Nancy V., 1946- 1
Barnes, Irston R. 1
Barnes, Lea Boyce 1
Bartlett family 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Beisswenger family 1
Beisswenger, Don 1
Beisswenger, Joyce, 1930-2002 1
Beisswenger, Judy 1
Benjamin Franklin High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Bergmann family 1
Bergmann, Gustav (1906-1987) 1
Bergmann, Leola Nelson, 1912-2011 1
Beth El Jacob Synagogue (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Bethel College (North Newton, Kan.) 1
Bettendorf Public Library (Bettendorf, Iowa) 1
Bixler, Genevieve Knight 1
Black Student Union 1
Bohlmann, Rachel E. 1
Bonham, Catherine 1
Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
Bourret, Joan Liffring-Zug (1929-2022) 1
Bowen, Howard Rothmann, 1908- 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Boyd, Susan, 1927- 1
Boyd, Willard L. (Willard Lee), 1927- 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Braunwarth, Sarah, 1853-1927 1
Bridgeport Central High School (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
Briggs, John Ely, -1952 1
Briggs, Nellie Upham, -1973 1
Briggs, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1918-2004 1
Briggs, Wilbur 1
Briles, Margaret Stevenson 1
Brown, Helen Andrews 1
Buchanan, Ellen 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Byers, Rosetta M. 1
Camp Fire Girls 1
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission 1
Central College (Pella, Iowa) 1
Cherry, Kittredge, 1957- 1
Chicago Theological Seminary 1
Childs, Lue Prentiss, 1902-1968 1
Childs, Malissa 1
Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
Clark, Marion Jones, 1916-2011 1
Coe College 1
Columbus High School (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Conn family 1
Conn, Gladys, 1910-2005 1
+ ∧ less