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Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Dates:
1884-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bowersox and Osborn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0500
Abstract
The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.
Dates:
1861-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Buckwalter papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0916
Abstract
Diaries of farm and family life written by Elizabeth Buckwalter and her daughter Mary Jane Buckwalter in Scott County, Iowa from 1867-1878.
Dates:
1817-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ellen Mowrer Miller papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract
Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.
Dates:
1856-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jennie Sies papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0496
Abstract
Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.
Dates:
1880
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Kate Martinson papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0084
Abstract
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1872-1944
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lucy Van Voorhis White papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0074
Abstract
Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.
Dates:
1861-1939
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Bobbitt Ettleman papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0711
Abstract
The 1951 memoir describes rural life in nineteenth century Iowa and Indiana.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1951-1984
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Strang Corothers papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0324
Abstract
Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1934
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marie Rumble papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Dates:
1890-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Reese Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract
Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.
Dates:
1800-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1878-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1879-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1888-1969
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Wilda Jean Schobert papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0180
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