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Arlene Gardner Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract

Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.

Dates: 1912-1999

Arlene Jens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0499
Abstract

Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1962-2006

Barbara Fassbinder papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0410
Abstract

Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.

Dates: 1958-1998

Barbara M. Calderon papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract

Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1945-1968

Cheryl Britton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract

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

Dates: 1890-2003

Des Moines BirthPlace records

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Identifier: IWA0195
Abstract

The first licensed out-of-hospital birth center in Iowa, specializing in nurse-midwifery.

Dates: 1979-2000

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Geraldene Felton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0330
Abstract

Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing.



Arrangement

Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994 by M. Elizabeth Carnegie (1995).

Dates: 1951-2004

Harriet E. Johnson Palmer papers

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Identifier: IWA0839
Abstract

Scrapbook featuring the professional and social life of an Iowa nurse in the 1920's.

Dates: 1912-1926

Iowa League for Nursing records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0580
Abstract

The Iowa League for Nursing's efforts have included active participation in community planning and action for health care, advocating changes such as home health care. The organization made efforts to assure the continuing supply of nurses by providing them with the educational opportunities to reach their maximum career potential, ability to move into management and leadership positions, and promoting a greater public appreciation of nursing as a profession.

Dates: 1952-2002

Iowa Nurses Association, Fifth District records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0015
Abstract

Local chapter of the Iowa Nurses Association.

Dates: 1922-2001

Iowa Nurses' Association records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0023
Abstract

State branch of the national organization. The overall purpose of the association has been to promote and improve the professional skills and status of nurses.



Arrangement

Administrative Records, 1904-1989 (boxes 1-18) American Nurses Association, 1928-1989 (boxes 18-24) Committees, 1933-1989 (boxes24-34) Continuing Education, 1955-1989 (boxes 34-36) Conventions, 1904-1989 (boxes 37-44) Districts, 1920-1984 (boxes44-48) Economic Security,1946-1989(boxes 48-57) Iowa League for Nursing,1913-1980 (boxes 57-61 Iowa Organizations, 1926-1989 (boxes 61-68) Membership, 1904-1988 (boxes 68-70) Publications, 1917-1985 (box71) Sections, 1940-1984 (boxes 71-77) Student Nurses Association, 1949-1984 (boxes 77-78) Photographs, 1918-1987 (boxes 78-79) Artifacts, 1981-1988 (box 80) Audiotapes, 1974-1987 (box 81) Oversize, 1916-1987 (box 82 and container 83)

Dates: 1904-1989

Jean Shoots papers

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Identifier: IWA0308
Abstract

Writer, performer, volunteer, and nurse in Iowa City.

Dates: 1990-1998

Jeanne Jones Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0795
Abstract

Nurse Jeanne Jones Cook grew up in Iowa and Colorado. She completed her training with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1945.

Dates: 1939-1949

Jo Ann Zimmerman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0351
Abstract

Elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1982 and in 1986, she became the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

Dates: 1958-1995

Louise Liers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0570
Abstract

World War I Army nurse from Clayton, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-1983

Lucille Ketchum Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0131
Abstract

1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.

Dates: 1936-2008

Margaret Langland Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0816
Abstract

Nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1925-1972

Marie Schultz Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0121
Abstract

Postville, Iowa, native who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing in 1940.

Dates: 1901-1993

Marie Tener Havel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0336
Abstract

Nurse who worked in Missouri in the 1930s and at the University of Iowa Hospitals from 1948 to 1965.

Dates: 1931-1997

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Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
American National Red Cross. Nursing Service 1
American Nurses Association 1
Andrews, Neta (1895-1981) 1
Aydelotte, Myrtle K. (Myrtle Kitchell) 1
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1916-1997 1
Becker, Ruth Salzmann, 1922-2007 (1922-2007) 1
Block, Marjorie Bertalot, 1923-2007 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Britton family 1
Britton, Cheryl, 1910-2003 1
Britton, Chester, 1904 - 1968 1
Calderon, Barbara McDonald, 1915- 1
Carter, Lucille Ketchum, 1913- 1
Christy, Teresa E. 1
Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
Cook, Jeanne Jones, 1927-1993 1
Cousin, Ruth Hager, 1895-1994 1
Crary, Julia 1
Des Moines BirthPlace 1
Donahue, M. Patricia (1939-2023) 1
Eastern Iowa League for Nursing 1
Ehrhardt, Louis 1
Fassbinder, Barbara, 1951-1994 1
Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 1
Gebers, Nellie M., 1901-1995 1
German Lutheran Hospital (Sioux City, Iowa). Nursing School 1
Goad family 1
Hager, Thora 1
Hall, Arlene Gardner, 1908-1999 1
Harris, Coral Rose Johnson, 1891-1982 1
Hauth, Mary Ungerer, 1890-1963 1
Havel, George, -1983 1
Havel, Marie Tener, 1910-2002 1
Hillard, Patricia, 1947-2000 1
Illinois Training School for Nurses 1
Iowa Association of Colleges of Nursing 1
Iowa Citizens' League for Nursing 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Health Systems Agency 1
Iowa Lutheran Hospital (Des Moines, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Iowa Nurses' Association. Fifth District 1
Iowa Nursing Center 1
Jens, Arlene (1926-2014) 1
Johnson, Effie 1
Johnson, Margaret Langland, 1912-1972 1
Kahler School of Nursing 1
La Leche League International. Western U.S. Division 1
Liers, Louise, 1887-1983 1
Lyford family 1
Lyford, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1910- 1
Mercy Hospital (Burlington, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Meyer, Marie Schultz, 1918-1993 1
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing 1
National Association of Childbearing Centers (U.S.) 1
National League for Nursing 1
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
Order of the Eastern Star 1
Palmer, Harriet E., 1904-1999 1
Salzmann family 1
Shelton Family 1
Shelton, Mary E. 1
Shelton, O. C., Lieutenant 1
Shelton, Rhoda Amanda 1
Shoots, Jean, 1926- 1
State University of Iowa 1
Stoner, Mavis, 1931- 1
Tener family 1
United States. Army School of Nursing 1
United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 45th (1864) 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Minnesota. School of Nursing 1
University of Virginia. School of Nursing 1
White family 1
Wing, Adrien Katherine 1
Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 1
Zimmerman, Jo Ann (1936-2019) 1
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