Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 41 - 60 of 191

Della Marie Koppenhaver papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0436
Abstract

Two reminiscences of an Iowa woman detailing farm life in the 1920s.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1958-1981

Denise O'Brien papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0156
Abstract

Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.

Dates: 1964-2007

Donna Schmidt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0856
Abstract

University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa

Dates: 1938-2010

Dorothy Misbach papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0468
Abstract

Educator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.

Dates: 1890-1999

Dorothy Rubenstein papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0739
Abstract

Federal Civil Service employee who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Communication in 1932.

Dates: 1928-2004

Edith Neal papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0660
Abstract

Known as the Vietnam Mail Lady, Neal corresponded with servicemen stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.

Dates: 1931-1997

Edna Griffin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0443
Abstract

Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.

Dates: 1948-2004

Edna Hidlebaugh papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0393
Abstract

Prominent Bayard, Iowa clubwoman who helped found the local library.

Dates: 1871-1987

Elizabeth "Bettye" Crawford Tate papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0266
Abstract

Owner and operator of the Tate Arms, a boarding house for African American male students at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: 1932-1999

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

Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0465
Abstract

Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991

Elizabeth Wherry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
Abstract

Farm magazine writer.

Dates: 1904-1960

Ellen Hanson Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0820
Abstract

Diaries chronicle Ellen Hanson Mason's life on the family farm in rural northeast Iowa.

Dates: 1929-1994

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

Elvira Houston papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0623
Abstract

Tama County, Iowa farmwoman who maintained the family account books for nearly fifty years. She ran for city council on the Women's Progressive Ticket in 1942.

Dates: 1928-1984

Emeline Fuhrmeister papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0613
Abstract

Widowed farmwoman who lived at the homes of her various children.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1908

Emmylou Krohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0634
Abstract

Teacher, columnist, and textbook author from Council Bluffs area.

Dates: 1940-1998

Ernest Rodriguez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract

Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Dates: 1910-2014

Estefania Joyce Rodriguez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0569
Abstract

Family photographs taken in Iowa, Alabama, and Mexico.

Dates: 1902-2008

Esther Christensen papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0596
Abstract

65-page memoir of Fayette County, Iowa farmwoman.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1908-1987

Filtered By

  • Subject: Iowa X
  • Subject: Families X
  • Subject: Families X
  • Subject: Archives (groupings) X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Repository
Iowa Women's Archives 190
University of Iowa Archives 1
 
Subject
Personal papers 166
20th century 149
Families 148
Photographs 137
Diaries 83
∨ more
Rural women 80
Women in agriculture 77
Oral histories 68
2001-2010 63
Correspondence 63
Rural families 60
Farm life 57
Autobiographies 56
Homemakers 50
Scrapbooks 48
Farmers 43
Memoirs 41
Teachers 36
Women -- 19th century 32
College students 31
Cultural artifacts 28
Photograph albums 26
Teaching 26
Iowa City (Iowa) 24
Hispanic American families 23
Hispanic American women 23
Rural girls 23
Women in education 21
Sound recordings 20
1991-2000 18
Iowa 18
Social participation 18
Marriage 17
Speeches 17
Yearbooks 17
Immigrant families 16
Mexican American women 16
2011-2020 15
Authors 15
Rural schools 15
1981-1990 14
Davenport (Iowa) 14
Family papers 14
Immigrants 14
Video recordings 14
Volunteers 14
Women 14
World War, 1939-1945 14
High school students 13
Autograph albums 12
Clubs 12
Community activists 12
Des Moines (Iowa) 12
Housekeeping 12
Mexican American families 12
Women -- Political activity 12
Voyages and travels 11
Women -- Societies and clubs 11
Working class women 11
1971-1980 10
Friendship 10
Journalists 10
Women lawyers 10
Administrative records 9
Blue collar workers 9
Home economics 9
Women and War 9
Depressions -- 1929 8
Drawings (visual works) 8
Girls 8
Local history 8
Mexican Americans 8
Political activists 8
Slides (photographs) 8
Stock Market Crash, 1929 8
Twentieth century 8
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 8
1901-1910 7
African American women 7
African American women -- Iowa 7
Agriculture 7
Artists 7
Country life 7
Emigration and immigration 7
Family-owned business enterprises 7
Frontier and pioneer life 7
Political participation 7
Rural churches 7
Women in journalism 7
4-H clubs 6
Ames (Iowa) 6
Civil rights 6
Community life 6
Farm management 6
Social workers 6
Waterloo (Iowa) 6
Women in public life 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 6
+ ∧ less
 
Language
Dutch; Flemish 1
 
Names
State University of Iowa 14
University of Iowa 7
Iowa State Teachers College 5
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 4
White family 4
∨ more
Iowa Mother of the Year 3
Iowa State College 3
League of United Latin American Citizens 3
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 3
University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 3
Democratic Party (Iowa) 2
Ellsworth Community College (Iowa Falls, Iowa) 2
Iowa Mothers Association 2
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 2
Migrant Action Program (Mason City, Iowa) 2
Muscatine Migrant Committee 2
Older Women's League (U.S.) 2
Stuart family 2
Vargas, Henry (1929-2021) 2
White, Stanley V., 1901- 2
Adams family 1
Adams, Monroe Milton 1
Aguilera, Maria Mercedes, 1936-2013 1
Albia Woman's Club (Albia, Iowa) 1
Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Legion Auxiliary 1
American Mothers, Inc. 1
American National Red Cross 1
American Theological Society 1
Anneberg, Dorothy Spencer 1
Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Artists In Action (Muscatine, Iowa) 1
Ashby, Rhoda 1
Associated Country Women of the World 1
Associated Country Women of the World. Conference 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967 1
Attlee, Felicity 1
Attlee, Martin 1
Attlee, Violet 1
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1
Baker, Carl 1
Barcelo family 1
BarceloĢ, Nancy V., 1946- 1
Barnes, Irston R. 1
Bartley, Joy Hedges 1
Bassett, Ella 1
Bayard Women's Club (Iowa) 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
Beth El Jacob Synagogue (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Birmingham High School (Birmingham, Iowa) 1
Blundall, Joan, 1945- 1
Bonham, Catherine 1
Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
Brandt family 1
Brant family 1
Brant, Alice Sophia, 1882-1956 1
Brant, Naomi 1
Briggs family 1
Briggs, John Ely, -1952 1
Briggs, Lela Powers, 1896-1953 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
Broer, Bethany 1
Broer, Faye York 1
Broer, Jacob 1
Broer, Kyle 1
Brown, Bill 1
Brown, Harriet Connor, 1872- 1
Brown, Maria Dean Foster, 1827-1929 1
Browneller, Martha Jean Nicholson, 1920- 1
Browneller, Max 1
Bruggmann, Charles 1
Bruggmann, Dominique 1
Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
Buchanan County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
Buckwalter, Elizabeth, 1817-1886 1
Buckwalter, Mary Jane, 1852- 1
Buell family 1
Buell, Levina Willis 1
Burchard family 1
Burchard, Celestia 1
Burns, Jean I. 1
Cadena, Juan 1
Cadena, Marta 1
Cano family 1
Cargill Corn Starch and Syrup (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Carlson, Agnes Bollesen 1
Carr, Martha Ashby 1
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
Central College (Pella, Iowa) 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 1
+ ∧ less