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Cheryl Britton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract

Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.

Dates: 1890-2003

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

Cora Belle Pollock papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0706
Abstract

Elementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Dates: 1909-1996

De Jong Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract

Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.

Dates: 1852-2011

Edna Means papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1908-1986

Lola Moeller Zook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0462
Abstract

Newspaper editor whose papers relate to her career as a journalist and the years she spent in occupied Japan following World War II.

Dates: 1909-2004

Mae Irene Ludemann papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0641
Abstract

High school history teacher who traveled to Europe in 1929 and recorded her experiences in a diary.

Dates: 1926-1943

McCown Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0852
Abstract

Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.

Dates: 1909-2012

Mildred "Micki" Zeller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0722
Abstract

Costume designer and avid traveler whose papers include an extensive collection of slides, related travel diaries, and materials pertaining to the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Dates: 1946-2000

Myrle Olive Ward papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0078
Abstract

Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.

Dates: 1908-1992

Shirley A. Briggs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0197
Abstract

Artist, editor, and naturalist.

Dates: 1840-2008

Shloss and Mannheimer Families papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0334
Abstract

Prominent Des Moines families including Irma Mannheimer, her husband Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and her parents, Rose and Max Shloss—the owners of Lederer and Strauss and Company.

Dates: 1896-1986

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State University of Iowa 3
American National Red Cross 1
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
B'nai Jeshurun Temple (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Barnes, Irston R. 1
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Briggs, John Ely, -1952 1
Briggs, Nellie Upham, -1973 1
Briggs, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1918-2004 1
Briggs, Wilbur 1
Britton family 1
Britton, Cheryl, 1910-2003 1
Britton, Chester, 1904 - 1968 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Burns, John 1
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
De Jong family 1
De Jong, Bernard, 1918- 1
De Jong, Eunice, 1923-2012 1
De Jong, Frederick, -1942 1
De Jong, Henry, 1913-2002 1
De Jong, Jan, 1884-1965 1
De Jong, Jeanette, 1914-2004 1
De Jong, Joanne, 1927-2005 1
De Jong, Lorraine Schol, 1914-2007 1
De Jong, Trentje Beuckens, 1885-1978 1
Des Moines Women's Club 1
Edna Means Dramatic Service 1
Emerson College of Oratory 1
Frankel, Babette Scheuerman 1
Friends of New Hampshire Music Festival 1
Goad family 1
Grinnell College 1
Gumbleton, Thomas J. 1
Guthrie, Walter 1
Hall, Norman 1
Highland Park College (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Human Resources Research Organization 1
Iowa Maternal Health League 1
Iowa State College 1
Irene, Princess of Netherlands 1
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 1
Koob family 1
Koob, Kathryn 1
Lederer and Strauss and Company 1
Ludemann, Mae Irene, 1900-1997 1
Mannheimer family 1
Mannheimer, Eugene Max, 1880-1952 1
Mannheimer, Irma Shloss, 1890-1974 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
Martini, Lorena 1
McCown family 1
McCown, Alfred Brown, 1850-1929 1
McCown, Anne Elizabeth, 1965- 1
McCown, Don Cleveland, 1884-1950 1
McCown, Frances Anne, 1902-1963 1
McCown, John Patrick, 1964- 1
McCown, Margaret 1
McCown, Robert A., 1939-2015 1
McNaughton family 1
McNaughton, Arnold 1
McNaughton, Donald 1
Means, Edna, 1887-1979 1
Midwest Archives Conference 1
Moeller, Dorothy 1
Moeller, George Walter, -1932 1
Moeller, Leslie George 1
Moeller, Maggie Zetner, -1955 1
Morningside College (Sioux City, Iowa) 1
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) 1
Nature Conservancy (U.S) 1
Nelson, Margaret 1
Pollock family 1
Pollock, Cora Belle, 1906-1998 1
Rachel Carson Council 1
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940 1
Shloss family 1
Shloss, Max 1
Shloss, Rose Scheuerman 1
Skott, Clara Steen, 1888-1994 1
Society for Technical Communication 1
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1
University High School (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
University of California, Los Angeles 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives 1
University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department 1
Upham family 1
Upham, Cyril 1
Van den Bosch, Robert 1
Ward, Myrle Olive, 1897-1992 1
White family 1
Zeller, Mildred, 1940-2000 1
Zeller, Robert 1
Zook, Lola M. 1
Zook, Maurice, -1981 1
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