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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....
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
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; 1923-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Anabeth Koob Voigts papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0694
Abstract
Materials relate to the efforts of Voigts to obtain the release of her sister, Kathryn Koob, who was held hostage in Iran between 1979 and 1981.
Dates:
1976-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Arlene Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0411
Abstract
Rural Mt. Ayr, Iowa woman who worked in local homes as a washerwoman and housekeeper.
Dates:
ca. 1912-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bettie McKenzie papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0136
Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0609
Abstract
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
Dates:
1974-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Beverly Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0148
Abstract
Family farmer, volunteer, and community activist who served on U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the International Women's Year Commission.
Dates:
1856-2001
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
Carrie Lindahl papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0638
Abstract
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Dates:
1875-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie V. Talcott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0687
Abstract
Active clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catharine King Herr papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0172
Abstract
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1976-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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