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Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract

Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.



Arrangement

Four folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1998-1999

Bernice Zimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Abstract

Diaries of an Iowa woman.

Dates: 1932-2010

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

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 - 2022

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.

Dates: 1993

Eleanor Eyestone Trummel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0518
Abstract

Home demonstration agent for Iowa State College Extension Service and homemaker.

Dates: 1916-2004

Elizabeth Lindsay Tatum papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0824
Abstract

Peace activist and Quaker who lived in Southern Rhodesia from 1960 to 1964.

Dates: 1900-2006

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.

Dates: 1945-1998

Harriet Adeline Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0707
Abstract

Teacher of nutrition education and dietetics; U. S. Army Second Lieutenant who served as a medical hospital dietician at Camp Gordon, Georgia during World War II.

Dates: 1928-1994

Heidi Posch Keir Galer papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA1326
Abstract

Award-winning German teacher that taught in Iowa City for 35 years who came to Iowa from Austria as a displaced refugee orphan in 1952.

Dates: 2018 - 2021

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

June Lundy Boyd papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0479
Abstract

Memoir describes growing up and teaching in southwestern Iowa, Lundy's wartime wedding and subsequent life in Knoxville, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2002

Lillian Ronk papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0503
Abstract

West Central Iowa farmwoman known locally as 'the flower lady.'

Dates: 1966-2000

Lola Moeller Zook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0462
Abstract

Newspaper editor whose papers relate to her career as a journalist and the years she spent in occupied Japan following World War II.

Dates: 1909-2004

Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract

A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.

Dates: 1917-1988

Marianne Michael papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0453
Abstract

Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.

Dates: 1897-2005

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Marjorie Mason papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0376
Abstract

Teacher, newspaper columnist and poet from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1960-1995

Marjorie Vandervelde papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0375
Abstract

Photojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.

Dates: 1837-2008

Ortha P. Neff papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract

Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.

Dates: 1944-2006

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American National Red Cross 3
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Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
Alliance for the Mentally Ill 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Bartlett, Wes 1
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Burgess family 1
Burgess, Nellie 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Camp Algona (Algona, Iowa) 1
Church of the Brethren Conference 1
Denison, Ella Strong 1
Easton, Elsie 1
England, Artis 1
Evans, Mary 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Fatherson, Editha Phillips 1
Fisher, Gladys 1
Fleming, Everett A. 1
Fleming, Minerva Etheline Ford 1
Fleming, Vesie 1
Galer, Heidi Posch Keir (1943) 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Gunderson, Helen, 1945- 1
Harris, Claudine (1926-2022) 1
Horsley, Jess 1
Horsley, Maureen 1
Human Resources Research Organization 1
Iglesias, Marvel 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
Iowa State College. Extension Service 1
Jacobsma, Irma 1
Jamison, Esther, 1901-2001 1
Johnson, Ursula 1
Jones, Joe Allen 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 1
Krueger family 1
Lais, Leonore Evans 1
Lauter, Laura 1
League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Iowa 1
Ludwigs, Doris 1
Lyon, Pauline, 1922- 1
Mapleton High School (Mapleton, Iowa) 1
Maroni family 1
Maroni, Valentine 1
Martini, Lorena 1
Mason family 1
Mason, Marjorie, 1913- 1
Meyer, Louis 1
Michael family 1
Michael, Elizabeth 1
Michael, Marianne Krueger, 1917- 1
Mills family 1
Mills, Ernest 1
Mills, Glenn 1
Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
Moeller, Dorothy 1
Moeller, George Walter, -1932 1
Moeller, Leslie George 1
Moeller, Maggie Zetner, -1955 1
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (U.S.) 1
Neff, Ortha P., 1915- 1
Nelson, Margaret 1
Newberg, Lois 1
Oetken, Randy 1
Ohlson, Margaret 1
Phelan, Emma Lou Leeper, 1926- 1
Phelan, Robert W. 1
Place, Dorothy Sprout, 1921- 1
Place, Harlan 1
Radcliffe College 1
Ronk, Lillian, 1922- 1
Ronk, Murlyn 1
Rumble, Edna 1
Rumble, Marie, 1894-1974 1
Rural Women's Project (University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives) 1
Russell, Rebecca Elizabeth Fatherson 1
Ryan Aeronautical Company 1
Scriabine, George, 1936-1963 1
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940 1
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 1
Skri︠a︡bina, Elena, 1906-1996 1
Society for Technical Communication 1
State University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 1
Stevens, Harriet Adeline, 1909- 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 1
Stone, Bette Brooks, 1927- 1
Stone, James 1
Tatum, Elizabeth Lindsay, 1920-1964 1
Tatum, Elmer 1
Tatum, Lyle E. 1
Tatum, Steven 1
Taylor, Edward Stewart 1
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