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Bernice Zimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract

Diaries of an Iowa woman.

Dates: 1932-2010

Bess Newcomer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0663
Abstract

Appanoose County farmwoman, columnist, and Farm Bureau officer.

Dates: 1936-1978

Christine Dutson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Dates: 1954 - 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

Esther Thornhill papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0254
Abstract

Ida Grove, Iowa mother and homemaker who worked at a hatchery and at a hamburger shop before marrying.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1956-1996

Esther Treptow Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0893
Abstract

Daughter of German immigrants whose scrapbook documents her life in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1919-2010

Ethel Reames papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0673
Abstract

Businesswoman who was the creator and proprieter of the Reames Noodle Company in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1954-1999

Florence Vallejo Terronez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract

The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.

Dates: 1913-2006

Gladys Moeller Lage papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0768
Abstract

Personal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.

Dates: 1912-1992

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0244
Abstract

Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.

Dates: 1983-2007

Helen Larson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0347
Abstract

Anamosa and Iowa City resident who worked for the The University of Iowa Hospital.

Dates: 1884-1996

Jean Kern papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0631
Abstract

Professor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.

Dates: 1921-1988

Jean Minish Stoner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0461
Abstract

Farmwoman, writer, and community volunteer near Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Dates: 1957-1997

Joy Smith Lewallen memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0738
Abstract

This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1985

Lela Powers Briggs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0043
Abstract

An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.

Dates: 1892-1992

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State University of Iowa 5
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Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Atlantic Refining Company 1
Briggs family 1
Briggs, Lela Powers, 1896-1953 1
Cano family 1
Cheek, Eugene Lloyd, 1953-1990 1
Christensen, Esther, 1895-1987 1
Clark, Dene 1
Clark, Esther Treptow, 1905-2004 1
Cranston, Derik 1
Dutson, Christine, 1954- 1
Edgerton, Wanda Misbach, 1905-2004 1
Gangestad, Rosa Knutson, 1867-1943 1
Giddings, Marie, 1908- 1
Grinnell College 1
Gunderson, Helen, 1945- 1
Harris family 1
Henley, Bill 1
Henley, Pearl Smith 1
Hora, Alice Tenley 1
Human Resources Research Organization 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
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Iowa State College. Agricultural Extension Service 1
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Jack's Hamburger Shop (Ida Grove, Iowa) 1
Jones, Joe Allen 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Keir family 1
Kern, Jean B. 1
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 1
Knutson family 1
Koppenhaver, Della Marie, 1904- 1
Lage, Gladys Moeller, 1912-2006 1
Lais, Leonore Evans 1
Larson, Helen, 1899-1996 1
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Lewallen, Joy Smith 1
Lynch, Elizabeth Fagan, 1908- 1
Martini, Lorena 1
Martínez, María Cano, 1925-1983 1
Mason family 1
Mason, Marjorie, 1913- 1
Master Breeders Hatchery (Ida, Grove, Iowa) 1
McPherson College 1
Meyer, Louis 1
Mikels family 1
Mikels, Lyman 1
Miller family 1
Miller, Albert, 1843-1938 1
Miller, Ellen Mowrer, 1848-1922 1
Moeller, Dorothy 1
Moeller, George Walter, -1932 1
Moeller, Leslie George 1
Moeller, Maggie Zetner, -1955 1
Moolick family 1
Morado family 1
Moulton, Mark 1
Mowrer family 1
Mowrer, Milton 1
Mowrer, Nathan 1
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Municipal Psychiatric Hospital of Caracas, Venezuela 1
Neal, Edith, 1916-2007 1
Nelson, Margaret 1
Newcomer family 1
Newcomer, Bess, 1893-1990 1
Newhall High School (Newhall, Iowa) 1
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Olson, Melba Gardemann, 1909-2000 1
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Parsons, Byron, -1915 1
Parsons, Mary Jane, 1842-1938 1
Pasadena Independent School District (Tex.) 1
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Reames Noodle Company (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Reames, Ethel, 1926- 1
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Roberts, Clyde L. 1
Roberts, Clyde Leslie 1
Roberts, Dora Belle 1
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Ronk, Lillian, 1922- 1
Ronk, Murlyn 1
Schmuecker family 1
Schmuecker, Hazelle Keir, 1907-2007 1
Schofield, Mary Anne 1
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940 1
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