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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

Catherine Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0217
Abstract

Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.

Dates: 1995

Christine Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0585
Abstract

Appanoose County 4-H leader, farmer, and teacher.

Dates: 1945

Donna Schmidt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0856
Abstract

University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa

Dates: 1938-2010

Dorothy Fox Wurster papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0700
Abstract

Mahaska County farm girl who won a blue ribbon in the Mahaska County's Boys' 4-H.

Dates: 1942-1987

Esther Everett papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0880
Abstract

Home economics professor raised on a farm in Lacey, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-2008

Harrison County Farm Bureau scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0620
Abstract

Part of the statewide, grass roots effort to provide agricultural and homemaking science to Iowa farmers in the second decade of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1974-1976

Irene Hoover papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0472
Abstract

Farmwoman, 4-H leader, and volunteer who was active in the Farm Bureau and the Master Farm Homemakers Guild.

Dates: 1923-2001

Irene Rock Zindel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0702
Abstract

Scott County, Iowa, farm woman who was active in 4-H and the Farm Bureau.

Dates: 1930-1998

Jessie Field Shambaugh papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0133
Abstract

Shenandoah, Iowa teacher who became school superintendent for Page County, Iowa. She played a central role in the development of activities for rural youth and is referred to as the 'Mother of 4-H.'

Dates: 1901-1994

Martha Jean Nicholson Browneller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0804
Abstract

Mahaska County, Iowa, farm woman who was active in 4-H and rural organizations. She recorded her daily activities in her diaries between 1935 and 1973.

Dates: 1920-2010

Melba Gardemann Olson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0456
Abstract

Benton County, Iowa, farm girl and teacher who played on her high school's basketball championship team in 1927.

Dates: 1916-1993

Myrtle Keppy papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0480
Abstract

Champion hog breeder, farm woman, 4-H leader, and president of the Iowa Porkettes.

Dates: 1926-2009

Nissen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0073
Abstract

Biographical materials relate to Walnut, Iowa clubwoman Wilma Parker Nissen and her daughters.

Dates: 1936-1996

North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0666
Abstract

Local chapter of 4-H organized in Mahaska County, Iowa, 1952.

Dates: 1952-1979

Ruth Moe Christ papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0283
Abstract

4-H participant from Winnebago, Iowa.

Dates: 1946-1961

Willow Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0487
Abstract

Diaries describe growing up in rural Iowa in the 1960s and the period from1992 to 2001.

Dates: 1960-2001

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Names
Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 3
Everett family 2
Monroe Busy Bees (4-H Club : Mahaska County, Iowa) 2
Ackeman, Karen 1
American Association of University Women 1
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Anderson, Christine Hanson, 1912- 1
Associated Country Women of the World 1
Associated Country Women of the World. Conference 1
Bell,  Eleanor Nissen, 1925- 1
Browneller, Martha Jean Nicholson, 1920- 1
Browneller, Max 1
Buckley, Susan C. 1
Cadoret, Jeanne 1
Chenault, Phyllis, 1923-1967 1
Christ, Ruth Moe, 1943- 1
Clark, M. Maeve 1
Edle, Jerry 1
Everett, Esther, 1910-2008 1
Everett, Fred 1
Farm Bureau (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Greazel, Shana 1
Harrison County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
Hemann, Brian 1
Hill, Willow, 1945- 1
Hoover, Irene (1907-2001) 1
Howe, Maureen 1
Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild 1
Iowa Mothers Association 1
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation 1
Iowa Porkettes 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa State Teachers College 1
Iowa State University 1
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
Jack, Jill, 1957- 1
Janz, Kathleen 1
Johnson, Martin 1
Keppy, Myrtle, 1924-2009 1
Kriedeman, Joan, 1927- 1
Lacina, Kim 1
Lewis, Catherine 1
Mahaska County Farm Bureau. Women's Committee 1
Marks, Trudy, 1943-1991 1
Michigan State College 1
Michigan State University 1
Mishler, Laura 1
Mishler, Margaret 1
Monroe Livewires (4-H Club : Mahaska County, Iowa) 1
National Women's Conference (1st : 1977 : Houston, Tex.) 1
Newhall High School (Newhall, Iowa) 1
Nicholson, Homer 1
Nicholson, Irma 1
Nissen family 1
Nissen, Anna Justine 1
Nissen, Ewald Anton 1
Nissen, Harold 1
Nissen, Helen Wilma Parker, 1898-1957 1
North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club (Mahaska County, Iowa) 1
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company 1
Olson, Melba Gardemann, 1909-2000 1
Oskaloosa High School (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1
Pickup, Sandra 1
Price, Lydia Ann 1
Price, William 1
Rogers, Opal 1
Roseman, Dennis 1
Roseman, Robin 1
Schmidt, Donna, 1921-2011 1
Shambaugh, Jessie Field, 1881-1971 1
State University of Iowa 1
Taylor, Leslie 1
Tri Mu 4-H Club (Scott County, Iowa) 1
U.S. National Commission for UNESCO 1
United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women 1
Watkins, Heather 1
Watson, Ann 1
Woodin, Marilyn 1
Wurster, Dorothy Fox, 1931- 1
Wurster, Howard 1
Zindel, Irene Rock, 1917- 1
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