Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 17 of 17

Aldeen Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract

Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.

Dates: 1954-1995

Annette Cech papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0593
Abstract

Iowa City housewife and mother whose son, Thomas Cech, won the Nobel Prize in 1989.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1945-2002

Caroline Ingels papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0716
Abstract

Farm woman and volunteer from Fayette County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1937-1999

Cornelia Shrauger Day papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0328
Abstract

Educated in journalism and law. Washington, Iowa, resident active in YWCA, Planned Parenthood and UNICEF.

Dates: 1890-2004

Diane Finnerty papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0865
Abstract

LGBTQ activist who began a coalition for gay and lesbian parents in the 1990s.

Dates: 1996-1999

Faith Knowler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0206
Abstract

Johnson County community activist from the 1970s to 1990s.

Dates: 1936-1995

Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0075
Abstract

Social worker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from the 1930s though the 1960s.

Dates: 1869-1993

Lileah Harris papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0256
Abstract

Professional volunteer active in several arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations in Cedar Rapids.

Dates: 1961-2014

Lois H. Eichacker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0255
Abstract

Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.

Dates: 1905-2006

Luella Rynerson Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0861
Abstract

Home extension course, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other early twentieth century rural organization publications collected by an Iowa farm wife.

Dates: 1884-1989

Margaret Wilbourn Gerber papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0520
Abstract

Clubwoman and activist who lived in Chicago, Albany, New York, and Iowa City.

Dates: 1923-2003

Marilyn O. Murphy papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0547
Abstract

Social activist from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1973-2010

Martha Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0235
Abstract

Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.

Dates: 1939-2000

Paula Watts Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0002
Abstract

Civic leader in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1930-1974

Penny Furgerson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0280
Abstract

Pakistan-born Indian American pharmacist, dancer, choreographer, and theatre director who founded the Gateway Dance Theatre, a Des Moines-based company specializing in multiethnic dance.

Dates: 1937-2023

Velma Stuit scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0212
Abstract

Wife of Dean of University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and organizer of Newcomers Club in 1938 and International Wives Club in 1959.

Dates: 1934-1990

Violet Greiner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0389
Abstract

Farmwoman, columnist, and volunteer from Blairsburg, Iowa who wrote a monthly column for the Rural Electric Cooperative News.

Dates: 1960-1999

Filtered By

  • Subject: Iowa X
  • Subject: Personal papers X
  • Subject: Community organization X
  • Subject: Iowa X
  • Subject: Iowa X
  • Subject: Women in community organization X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
20th century 15
Photographs 11
Community activists 7
2001-2010 5
African American women -- Iowa 5
∨ more
Community organization 5
Iowa City (Iowa) 5
Speeches 5
African American women 4
Women in public life 4
1991-2000 3
Civic leaders 3
Correspondence 3
Des Moines (Iowa) 3
Farmers 3
Homemakers 3
Photograph albums 3
Rural women 3
Scrapbooks 3
Volunteers 3
Women in agriculture 3
1981-1990 2
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 2
Clubs 2
Diaries 2
Journalists 2
Memoirs 2
Oral histories 2
Pacifism 2
Peace 2
Social participation 2
Sound recordings 2
Video recordings 2
Volunteer workers in social service 2
Waterloo (Iowa) 2
Women 2
Women -- Societies and clubs 2
1971-1980 1
African American cooking 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Artists 1
Bisexuals 1
Blairsburg (Iowa) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Child care 1
Civic improvement 1
Civil rights 1
Civil rights workers 1
College students 1
College teachers 1
College teachers' spouses 1
Community leadership 1
Community life 1
Cooking 1
Cultural artifacts 1
Cyprus 1
Dancers 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Dubuque (Iowa) 1
East Indian American women 1
Electric cooperatives 1
Embroidery 1
Families 1
Farm life 1
Fayette County (Iowa) 1
Files (digital files) 1
Fort Madison (Iowa) 1
Friendship 1
Gardening 1
Gay activists 1
Gay parents 1
Gay rights 1
Gays 1
Handicraft 1
Historic preservation 1
Home economics 1
India 1
Iowa 1
Johnson County (Iowa) 1
Keokuk (Iowa) 1
Leadership 1
Lesbian activists 1
Lesbians 1
Livestock 1
Medical care 1
Minority women 1
Modern dance 1
Monticello (Iowa) 1
Muscatine (Iowa) 1
Nutrition 1
Omaha (Neb.) 1
Pacifists 1
Pharmacists 1
Political activists 1
Political participation 1
Race discrimination 1
Race relations 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
State University of Iowa 3
American Association of University Women. Iowa City Branch 1
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Brown, Paula Watts, 1909-1974 1
Bywater, Jessie Cannon 1
∨ more
Cech, Annette Cerveny, 1922- 1
Cech, Thomas 1
Davis, Aldeen 1
Davis, Laura Hutchison, 1916-1993 1
Davis, Lloyd L. 1
Day family 1
Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 1
Day, Dennis 1
Day, Edward 1
Day, Robert 1
Day, Wilbur 1
Des Moines Art Center 1
Eichacker, Lois H. (1932-2018) 1
Finnerty family 1
Finnerty, Diane, 1960- 1
Furgerson, Penny, 1936- 1
Gateway Dance Theatre 1
Gerber, John C. 1
Gerber, Margaret Wilbourn, 1913-1996 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Greiner family 1
Greiner, Violet, 1916-1991 1
Harris, Lileah, 1931-2014 1
Indo-American Association of Des Moines 1
Ingels, Caroline, 1914- 1
International Wives Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives 1
Iowa Church Leaders Peace Caravan 1
Iowa State College. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Johnson County Regional Planning Commission (Iowa) 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Judson College (Marion, Ala.) 1
Knowler, Faith (1911-2002) 1
Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien 1
League of Women Voters of Iowa City, Iowa 1
Murphy, Marilyn, 1921-2012 1
Muscatine Federated Women's Club 1
Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
Needlework Guild of America. Iowa City Branch 1
Nineteenth Century Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 1
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1
Semper Fidelis Federated Women's Club 1
Shrauger family 1
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 1
Shrauger, Harold, Sr. 1
Simmons, Eleanor, 1925-1999 1
Siouxland Women's Political Caucus (Sioux City, Iowa) 1
Siouxlanders Concerned About the Nuclear Arms Race (Organization : Sioux City, Iowa)) 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Luella Rynerson, 1876-1948 1
Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization 1
Stuit, Velma, 1911-1997 1
UNICEF 1
United States. Department of Agriculture 1
University Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Iowa Alumni Association 1
Wallace, Lois Howes 1
Washington High School (Cedar Repids, Iowa) 1
Young Women's Christian Association (State University of Iowa) 1
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 1
+ ∧ less