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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
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Arrangement
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
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:
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
Arrangement
Farm wife who kept a diary from 1945 until her death in 1978.
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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