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Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1897-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1998-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernadine Solberg papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Dates:
1855-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0194
Abstract
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
Dates:
1943-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Bette Brooks Stone papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract
Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Betty Boller oral history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0290
Abstract
Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Blanca Vasquez Gaines papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0899
Abstract
Puerto Rican woman who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Claudine Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0446
Abstract
Harris worked in radiation detection instrumentation. She was active in the Johnson County League of Women Voters and the Johnson County Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Dates:
1903-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Constance Frick Irwin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0208
Abstract
Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dora Jane Hamblin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0087
Abstract
Iowa native who wrote for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, LIFE magazine, and other periodicals.
Dates:
1937-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0384
Abstract
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0460
Abstract
University of Iowa alumna and clubwoman. She wrote a column for the Iowa City Press Citizen during World War II.
Dates:
1929-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0226
Abstract
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Entre Nous records (Iowa City, Iowa)
Collection
Identifier: IWA0081
Abstract
Women's drama study club founded in 1914 in Iowa City.
Dates:
1914-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Evelyn Crary Bacon papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract
Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.
Dates:
1917-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Fox Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0449
Abstract
Dr. Walter Fox was a physician who served in France during WWI and later died in Serbia while working for the Italian Red Cross. Helen Fox Angell was a Red Cross worker during WWII and later in the Panama Canal Zone. Primarily photographs, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia.
Dates:
1880-1966; Majority of material found in 1918-1947
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Gladys Spayde papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0042
Abstract
Stage actress who spent her childhood in Saskatchewan and was a teacher in Fairfield, Iowa.
Dates:
1932-1982
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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