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Frank Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0659
Abstract

Editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.

Dates: 1951 - 1983; 1960-1979

Fred Schwengel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0456
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the papers of Iowa Representative Fred Schwengel.

Dates: 1940-1993; Majority of material found within 1960-1979

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

Geraldine Greenlee papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0474
Abstract

Received her master's degree from the Department of Physical Education for Women at the State University of Iowa in 1952.

Dates: 1945-2004

Gwendolyn Fowler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract

The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.

Dates: 1905-1996

Harold E. Hughes Gubernatorial Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0385
Abstract

Governor and U.S. Senator from Iowa. Gubernatorial and senatorial office files relating to his political career.

Dates: 1962-1975

Harry Harper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0365
Abstract

Physician and civil rights leader in Fort Madison, IA. Correspondence, speeches, biographical and autobiographical materials, and subject files document both his career and his Civil Rights activism.

Dates: 1946-1985

Helen Gunderson papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0286
Abstract

Papers include photographs of 1995 suffrage parade and Iowa ERA rallies.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF; one videocassette [V339] shelved in videocassette collection.

Dates: 1994-2004

Henry C. Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0179
Abstract

Second editor of Wallaces' Farmer; appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by Warren Harding (1921-1924). Member of exec. committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association. Arranged in broad subject categories. The correspondence arranged in chronological order.

Dates: 1904-1930

Henry Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0180
Abstract

First editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Arranged in broad subject categories and then in chronological order. Available on microfilm for use in repository, for interlibrary loan, and for purchase.

Dates: 1860-1924

Icey Lenora Teel Harling papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0238
Abstract

Lecturer, author and playwright who ran the Teel School of Expression in Davenport, 1918-1934 and was later a writer and editor for the Durant News.

Dates: 1902-1973

Iola Vander Wilt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0441
Abstract

Farmwoman and past Queen of Flying Farmers of Iowa who encouraged farm wives and teens to learn to fly.

Dates: 1963-1973

Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0170
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, articles, leaflets, clippings, scrapbooks and a sketchbook, mostly dealing with politics, conservation, or family affairs, assembled by newspaper cartoonist Ding Darling of The Des Moines Register. There are also some 6,000 original pen-and-ink cartoons drawn by Darling.

Dates: 1897-1962; Majority of material found within 1920-1949

Jean Berry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0297
Abstract

Des Moines-based artist.

Dates: 1989-2000

Jennifer Riggs Cosson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0431
Abstract

A known suffragist who was active in community and political circles in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1890-1943

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

Joan Vander Naald Egenes papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0332
Abstract

Des Moines-born clubwoman, community leader, businesswoman, and Republican Party activist.

Dates: 1966-1997

John Anson Nash Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0223
Abstract

Baptist clergyman and founder of Des Moines University. Church documents, correspondence, school bonds and contracts, etc.

Dates: 1845-1888

John MacVicar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0051
Abstract

Record of expenditures for a farm located on Muscatine Island.

Dates: 1881-1952

Josephine Witmer Van Liew papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0693
Abstract

Secretary of the West Des Moines High School Class of 1908. Maintained alumni relations through the 65th class reunion.

Dates: 1908-2000

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Bucksbaum, Carolyn, 1929- 1
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Camp Alexander Hays (Kan.) 1
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