Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 21 - 36 of 36

Lucy Van Voorhis White papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0074
Abstract

Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.

Dates: 1861-1939

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Marta Werner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0361
Abstract

Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.

Dates: 1892-1989

Mary C. Hooper papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0850
Abstract

Diary chronicling Hooper's daily life in Princeton, Iowa.

Dates: 1873-1874

Mary Henrietta Peters papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0908
Abstract

Resident of Illyria Township near Wadena, Iowa, who recorded her daily activities from 1891 until her death in 1931.



Arrangement

The Iowa Women's Archives gratefully acknowledges the transcription of the diaries by Dr. Lisa Guinn, a visiting assistant professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, and Rio Farren, an undergraduate history major at Upper Iowa University. They completed the transcription in 2014.

Dates: 1891-1934

Mary Jane Parsons papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0517
Abstract

Reflections on her pioneer life from Rochester, New York to Dakota City, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1935

Mary Sears McHenry papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0423
Abstract

Diary and account book of the bride of a Civil War officer.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1865-1998

Phoebe Kellum Mericle papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0302
Abstract

Early settler in Webster County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One item, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1893

Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

Rosa Knutson Gangestad papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0614
Abstract

The daughter of Norwegian immigrants who came to Humboldt County, Iowa in 1872. Reflections on pioneer life through handwritten stories and letters for her grandchildren.

Dates: 1867-1943

Rosebelle Pierce Luick papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0828
Abstract

Corresponence about daily life in the late 19th century from friends and family to Luick, a resident of Belmond, Iowa.

Dates: 1854-1902

Shale and Wolf Families letters

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0425
Abstract

Family correspondence recording farm life in northern Iowa and the Dakota territory, primarily from a farm woman's perspective.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1878-1999

Trimble Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0427
Abstract

Reminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith and Marie Jeffers about their mother, Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1879-1999

Van Zante and De Cook Families papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0721
Abstract

Late 19th century diary of adolescent Dutch-American farm girl and 1932 farm diary of her daughter-in-law.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1888-1969

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

Wilda Jean Schobert papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0180
Abstract

Percival, Iowa farm woman and club woman.

Dates: 1840-2000

Filtered By

  • Subject: Families X
  • Subject: Women -- 19th century X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Archives (groupings) 34
Families 31
Personal papers 27
20th century 24
Rural women 23
∨ more
Women in agriculture 22
Diaries 21
Photographs 19
Rural families 17
Correspondence 16
Farm life 16
Autobiographies 15
Homemakers 15
Oral histories 15
Farmers 11
2001-2010 8
Housekeeping 8
Memoirs 8
Frontier and pioneer life 7
Rural girls 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Autograph albums 6
Family papers 6
Marriage 6
College students 5
Immigrant families 5
Photograph albums 5
Scrapbooks 5
Teachers 5
1861-1870 4
19th century 4
2011-2020 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women 4
1901-1910 3
Iowa 3
Iowa City (Iowa) 3
Postcards 3
Rural schools 3
Teaching 3
Women and War 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
Yearbooks 3
Child rearing 2
Christmas cards 2
Courtship 2
Cultural artifacts 2
Depressions -- 1929 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
Dutch American women 2
Farm management 2
Girls 2
Home economics 2
Immigrants 2
Nineteenth century 2
Norwegian American women 2
Norwegian Americans 2
Omaha (Neb.) 2
Pennsylvania 2
Scott County (Iowa) 2
Sewing 2
Stock Market Crash, 1929 2
Sweden 2
Voyages and travels 2
Waterloo (Iowa) 2
1931-1940 1
1991-2000 1
Accountants 1
Adams County (Iowa) 1
Agricultural prices 1
Agriculture 1
Ames (Iowa) 1
Bankers 1
Belmond (Iowa) 1
Benton County (Iowa) 1
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) 1
Boone (Iowa) 1
Boone County (Iowa) 1
Boyden (Iowa) 1
Businesswomen 1
California 1
Cascade (Iowa) 1
Clergy 1
Coggon (Iowa) 1
Colorado 1
Community activists 1
Community life 1
Country life 1
Courts 1
Crops and climate 1
Dakota City (Iowa) 1
Dakota Territory 1
Dallas County (Iowa) 1
Davenport (Iowa) 1
Denison (Iowa) 1
Dickinson County (Iowa) 1
Divorce 1
Dobbs Ferry (N.Y.) 1
Dressmakers 1
Drugs 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
Dutch; Flemish 1
 
Names
Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
Anneberg, Dorothy Spencer 1
Auer family 1
Auer, Amy Sophia, 1900- 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
∨ more
Bassett, Ella 1
Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
Bradley family 1
Bradley, Cornelia Fitch, 1838-1893 1
Bradley, David Ogden, 1827-1895 1
Bradley, Henry 1
Bradley, Rhoda Ogden 1
Brown, Bill 1
Brown, Harriet Connor, 1872- 1
Brown, Maria Dean Foster, 1827-1929 1
Buckwalter, Elizabeth, 1817-1886 1
Buckwalter, Mary Jane, 1852- 1
Byington, Robert, -1884 1
Coggon Ladies' Literary Society (Coggon, Iowa) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
De Cook family 1
De Cook, Besse De Prenger 1
De Cook, Ernest 1
De Cook, Mary Van Zante 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
Delta Zeta Sorority 1
Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Fitch, Abijah 1
Fuhrmeister family 1
Fuhrmeister, Emeline 1
Fullerton family 1
Fullerton, Grace, 1879-1972 1
Fullerton, William J. 1
Gangestad, Rosa Knutson, 1867-1943 1
Gates, Adelia St. John, 1841-1874 1
Gates, John Cook, 1838-1917 1
Genesee College 1
Halferty family 1
Harsha, Cathryn McCleery 1
Hedges family 1
Hedges, Bertha, 1887-1978 1
Hedges, Charles 1
Hedges, Mildred 1
Henderson family 1
Hensley, Grace Ricketts 1
Hill, Catherine Snedeker 1
Hill, William, 1834-1896 1
Holden family 1
Holden, Anson 1
Holden, Ida Bandfield 1
Hooper, Mary C. 1
Iowa State College 1
Jeffers, Marie Trimble 1
Keran, Amy Halferty 1
Knutson family 1
Larimer, Ann 1
Larimer, John 1
Leff family 1
Leff, Nellie Josephine, 1884-1972 1
Lehman, Charlotte 1
Leith, Gladys Trimble, 1907- 1
Llindahl, Carrie, 1887-1977 1
Luick, Rosebelle Pierce, 1836-1914 1
Luick, William Christian 1
Martinson, Kate, 1858-1941 1
McHenry, Mary Sears, 1834-1912 1
Mericle, Jacob 1
Mericle, Phoebe Kellum, 1820-1893 1
Middlebrook, Emma Bradley 1
Miller family 1
Miller, Albert, 1843-1938 1
Miller, Carmine Harsha 1
Miller, Ellen Mowrer, 1848-1922 1
Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
Monticello Female Seminary 1
More, Florinda Wakefield, 1839-1890 1
More, Thomas, 1832-1877 1
Moulton, Mark 1
Mowrer family 1
Mowrer, Milton 1
Mowrer, Nathan 1
Mowrer, Peter (Physician) 1
Mowrer, William 1
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs 1
Olson family 1
Parsons family 1
Parsons, Byron, -1915 1
Parsons, Mary Jane, 1842-1938 1
Peters, Mary Henrietta, 1858-1931 1
Prentiss family 1
+ ∧ less