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A. Louise Mays papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994."At Arm's Length" and "Raw Footage of Louise Mays" (1992) VHS. This videocassette includes a documentary on aging in Iowa, produced by Mary Frances Evans, in which Mays participated. It is followed by the unedited interview with Mays. Other persons featured on the videotape are: Estelle Alleman, Margaret Allen, Betty Atwater, Margaret Bastian, MaryEllen Buck, Robert Buck, Eileen Dawson, King Dawson, Venita Ellison, B. J.Fedler, Harold Forrester, Mildred Forrester, Helen Gore, Wayne...
Dates: 1939-1997

Abbie Romey papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract

Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Dates: 1891-1993

Alice Kelley papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0485
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.

Dates: 1888-2005

Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract

Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Anna Moore Cheney diaries

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
Abstract

Diarist, mother, and minister's wife.

Dates: 1892-1953

Blanche Basye Gilmore papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract

Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1970

Dale McCormick papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0513
Abstract

Carpenter and activist for women in non-traditional jobs.

Dates: 1958-1997

Edna Herbst papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0536
Abstract

Videotaped interview with Herbst about the history of television broadcasting in Iowa, 1998.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1924-2003

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

Francoise Martinet papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0719
Abstract

Ballerina and professor of dance at the University of Iowa from 1978-1997.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1978-1998

Geneva Southall papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0380
Abstract

Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies and Music at the University of Minnesota; University of Iowa alumna.

Dates: 1960-2004

Gertrude Taft papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0843
Abstract

Humboldt, Iowa, native who taught high school in Iowa and worked for the Unitarian Church in Cleveland and Boston.

Dates: 1908-1926

Gladys Talcott Rife papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0284
Abstract

Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.

Dates: 1920-2002

Helen Larson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0347
Abstract

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

Dates: 1884-1996

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

Iowa Byington Reed papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0555
Abstract

The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.

Dates: 1872-1936

Judy Herron Hoit papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0373
Abstract

Disability access and awareness advocate and 1996 Ms. Wheelchair Iowa winner.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1950-1998

LeAnn Erickson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0872
Abstract

Filmmaker whose documentary, From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories, explores the history of the Emma Goldman Clinic.

Dates: 1996

Linda Yanney papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0413
Abstract

Iowa City feminist and champion of LGBT rights.

Dates: 1948-2000

Lois Boulware papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0352
Abstract

Physician in the University of Iowa Student Health Department, who established the Patient Advocacy Program at University Hospitals after marrying and having a child.

Dates: 1977-1995

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Atalig, Angelica Lynn Rose 1
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Britton, Jennifer 1
Brooks, Beth 1
Brown, Geraldine 1
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Bucklew, Jeanette, 1946- 1
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Curtin, Barb 1
Democratic Party (Iowa) 1
Depot Museum (Fayette County, Iowa) 1
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Drake University 1
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Erickson, LeAnn 1
Fleming, Everett A. 1
Fleming, Minerva Etheline Ford 1
Fleming, Vesie 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 1
Geadelmann, Patricia L. 1
Gilmore, Blanche Basye, 1873-1970 1
Gilmore, Eugene Allen, 1871-1953 1
Godwin, Trula, 1940-2002 1
Greene, Diane 1
Grinnell College 1
Hamilton, Sharon 1
Hammond, Ilene 1
Hanley, Sarah (1937-) 1
Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
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Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
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Herbst, Edna, 1924-2003 1
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Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa ERA Coalition 1
Iowa State Teachers College 1
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
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Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jew, Jean Y. 1
John F. Kennedy School of Government 1
KCRG (Radio station : Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
KCRG-TV (Television station : Iowa) 1
Kaefring, Gina 1
Kelley, Alice 1
Kelley, Mary Louise 1
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 1
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Larson, Helen, 1899-1996 1
Lessmeier, Mary Jo, 1952- 1
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 1
Malcolm Price Laboratory School 1
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Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
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Mays, A. Louise, 1914- 1
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McCown, Robert A., 1939-2015 1
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Meyer, Ann J., 1954- 1
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