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Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Beverly A. Hannon papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0065
Abstract
Two-term Iowa state senator. Hannon chaired the Human Resources Committee and was instrumental in founding the Iowa Women's Foundation in Iowa City.
Dates:
1968-2015
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Billie D. Lloyd papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0705
Abstract
Social worker, community activist, and civic administrator who founded the Quad Cities Conference on Black Families, Inc.
Dates:
1957-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carol Hodne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0488
Abstract
Iowa farm activist who served as the first executive director of the North American Farm Alliance during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Dates:
1921-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Christine Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract
Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.
Dates:
1952-2022
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Church Women United (Johnson County, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0597
Abstract
Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dale McCormick papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0513
Abstract
Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.
Dates:
1958-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
De Jong Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Dates:
1852-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dieman-Bennett Dance Theatre of the Hemispheres (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0265
Abstract
Cedar Rapids dance studio founded in 1951 by Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett.
Dates:
1929-2017
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Evelyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials
Collection
Identifier: IWA0126
Abstract
Cookbooks, newsletters, and other publications of the Radio Homemakers who broadcast over KMA and KFNF in southwest Iowa.
Dates:
1924-2021
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Frances Hawthorne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0473
Abstract
Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.
Dates:
1906-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Helene Scriabine papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0080
Abstract
Author and Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Iowa, who emmigrated to the United States after surviving the siege of Leningrad in 1941.
Dates:
1940-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa Women's Political Caucus records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0019
Abstract
Organization to promote the advancement of women in politics.
Dates:
1972-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
James A. Van Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG99.0142
Scope and Contents
THE JAMES A. VAN ALLEN PAPERS, 1938-1990, chronicle the professional career in upper atmosphere research, space physics research, and academia of Dr. James Van Allen; and document how the shifting research trends affected the career of one scientist. This substantial collection includes papers created or consolidated by Dr. Van Allen excluding those connected to his tenure as Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa. The Van Allen Papers (The Papers) encompass a multitude of topics from early upper atmospheric research in the 1950s, using balloons, to spacecraft missions to the outer planets in the 1970s; from the unofficial post-World War II V-2 Panel in the mid 1940s to the creation of NASA in 1958; and from his advice to students and to presidents. In addition, Van Allen's membership on numerous planning and advisory committees, documented in this collection, complement the technical record contained in the extensive mission files.
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Dates:
1938-1990
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Jane Elliott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0832
Abstract
Riceville, Iowa schoolteacher and anti-racism activist who pioneered diversity training with her famous "Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed" exercise
Dates:
1968-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jean Cutler Prior papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0786
Abstract
Geologist who worked with the Iowa Geological Survey in Iowa City for 38 years. Arrangement The Orestes St. John oversized series consists of 2 oversized boxes with two folders each in them. The first box (box 32) is titled Milligan Sketches and contains reproductions of the 6 Orestes St. John drawings in folder one and 11 mounted originals and Milligan reproductions in folder 2. The 11 mounted originals and Milligan reproductions include:1) Clamont Farm, Manhattan, Kansas, Valley of Cedar Creek, Autumn, 18682) View of the Valley of the Missouri, looking up the stream to the Northwestward, from bluff on south side of Thompson's Creek (Floyd Bluff), Woodbury Co. Iowa, 13 Aug 18683) View of the Valley of the Missouri, looking up the stream to the Northwestward, from bluff on south side of Thompson's Creek (Floyd Bluff) Woodbury Co. Iowa, March 19784) Gypsum Quarry in ravine 3 miles...
Dates:
1857-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
John Culver Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0810
Abstract
U.S. Congressman and Senator from Iowa.
Dates:
1965-1981
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Kathleen Wood Laurila papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0458
Abstract
Iowa activist involved in the peace movement as well energy conservation and environmental protection coalitions.
Dates:
1956-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Kittredge Cherry and Audrey Lockwood
Collection
Identifier: IWA0759
Abstract
Life partners Kittredge Cherry (1957-), an author, journalist, and minister to the LGBT community, and Audrey Lockwood (1957- ), a financial planner, met as students at the University of Iowa in 1975 and lived and worked in Japan before settling in California.
Dates:
1970-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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