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Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0558
Abstract

Factory worker who was among the first Latinas to be hired at the International Harvester Company Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois.

Dates: 1950-2013

Mary Terronez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0497
Abstract

Davenport area community activist and leader in its Mexican American community.

Dates: 1936-2018

Mary Vasquez Olvera papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0559
Abstract

Davenport, Iowa, woman whose parents came to Iowa from Mexico in the 1910s.

Dates: 1923-2003

Merle Ramirez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0809
Abstract

Educator, activist, and musician from Davenport, Iowa, who held leadership positions in UAW Local 858 and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

Dates: 1987 - 2016

Modesta and Genaro Garnica papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0885
Abstract

Davenport family that emigrated from Mexico in the 1910s.

Dates: 1949-2004

Otilia Gomez Savala papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract

Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1937-2014

Ruth Ashton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0162
Abstract

Physical education teacher whose papers include records of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and of the Association for Girls and Women in Sport.

Dates: 1971-1994

Trula Godwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0618
Abstract

Davenport, Iowa, policewoman from 1973-1998.

Dates: 1941-2003

Vern Berry papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0354
Abstract

Newspaper columnist who co-authored a book entitled, ?Roots and Recipes: Six Generations of Heartland Cookery.?



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1980-1998

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League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 4
League of United Latin American Citizens 2
Adams family 1
Adams, Monroe Milton 1
Aguilera, Maria Mercedes, 1936-2013 1
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American Institute of Commerce 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Balster, Stella Werden 1
Berry, Vern, 1906-2004 1
Bonney, Margaret Atherton 1
Brewton, Frances 1
Brown, Geraldine 1
Bushnell-Hamlin, Ella 1
Carson, Frances 1
Catholic Interracial Council (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Charleton, Gwyn 1
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 1
Coggeshall, Mary Jane Whitely, 1836-1911 1
Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
Davenport Academy of Sciences 1
Estes, Simon 1
Fillers, Freddie 1
Fox, Margaret, 1912-2010 1
Francis, Betty 1
Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 1
Garnica family 1
Garnica, Genero, 1896-1973 1
Garnica, Modesta Lopez, 1901-1974 1
Godwin, Trula, 1940-2002 1
Goldman, Louise, 1924-1998 1
Gomez, Joseph 1
Gomez, Luz Salazar, 1900-1956 1
Gomez, Peter, 1900-1984 1
Grubbs, Joyce Godwin 1
Harling, George 1
Harling, Icey Lenora Teel, 1878-1964 1
Harling, Maurice 1
Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
Heckert, Connie K. 1
Herrera family 1
Herrera, Basilisa, 1899-2003 1
Herrera, Primitivo, -1936 1
Iowa Association of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
Jens, Arlene (1926-2014) 1
Johnson, Ruth Ashton, 1933- 1
Juilliard School 1
Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844 1
Lopez, Antonia (1897-1963) 1
Lopez, Frederico (1888-1981) 1
Lopez, Joan 1
Lopez, Salvador, 1928- 1
Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
Martinez, Adella, 1929- 1
Mason, Kären 1
Maxwell, Artice 1
McCowen, Jennie, 1845-1924 1
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
Muscatine Migrant Committee 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.) 1
O'Connor, Reverend William 1
Olvera, Albert 1
Olvera, Augustine 1
Olvera, Mary Vásquez, 1927- 2016 1
Putnam Museum 1
Putnam, Mary Louise Duncan, 1832-1903 1
Quad Cities Council on Human Rights 1
Ramirez, Merle, 1930-2016 1
Rash, Sharon 1
Rodriguez, Ernest, 1928- 1
Rodriguez, Estefania Joyce, 1923-2008 1
Rodriguez, Herman Glenn 1
Rodriguez, Muggie Adams 1
Rodriguez, Nestora Rivera 1
Rodriguez, Norberto 1
Rowlett, Adeline Adams 1
Savala, Otilia Gomez, 1937- 1
Schneiders, Jean, 1935- 1
Schneiders, John L. (1933-2019) 1
Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993 1
Sears, Birdie, 1861-1938 1
Semper Fidelis Club (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Spanish Speaking Peoples Commission of Iowa 1
Spencer, Bessie 1
St. Ambrose University 1
State University of Iowa 1
Teel School of Expression (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Terronez family 1
Terronez, Felipe Bravo 1
Terronez, Irene 1
Terronez, John, 1938-1997 1
Terronez, Mary, 1918-2009 1
Terronez, Virginia 1
Trident Publishing Company 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Iowa. Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education 1
University of Wisconsin 1
Van Horn, Ernella, 1932- 1
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