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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
Abbie Romey papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract
Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Dates:
1891-1993
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
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Albert J. Cohen Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0126
Abstract
American motion picture and television script writer and producer. Program scripts, department materials, memos, clippings, notes, correspondence, production budgets, and miscellaneous photographs.
Dates:
1948-1961; Majority of material found in 1951-1955
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Alberta Evelyn Swan Lehman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0367
Abstract
Correspondence and scrapbook of student years at Simpson Conservatory in Indianola, Iowa.
Dates:
1874-1932
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Alberta Metcalf Kelly papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0176
Abstract
High school English teacher who was active in state and national Democratic Party politics during the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
1899-1994
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 Sophia Brant papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0170
Abstract
Diaries of this homemaker and mother who helped manage the family's funeral home in Oelwein.
Dates:
1901-2006
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
Alma Marie Kouba Kress papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0405
Abstract
Buchanan County elementary school teacher and clubwoman.
Dates:
1925-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Alta Martin papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0353
Abstract
Arrangement
Homemaker and mother of five who received her private pilot license in 1963.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1963-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Amelia McNeill papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0647
Abstract
Farm woman who served as secretary of Monona Co. Rural Electrification Association for more than 20 years.
Dates:
1929-1971
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Amy Clampitt Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0582
Abstract
Poet: Kingfisher (1983), Manhattan: An Elegy (UI Center for the Book, 1990), MacArthur Fellow, 1992, Collected Poems (1997). Correspondence and typescripts of some of her writings.
Dates:
1983-1993
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Anita Crawford papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0599
Abstract
Buchanan County farmwoman who was active in the Farm Bureau and county historical society.
Dates:
1939-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Cochrane Lomas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0053
Abstract
Republican National Committeewoman in the 1950s and 1960s from Red Oak, Iowa.
Dates:
1917-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Marie Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0909
Abstract
Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.
Dates:
1925-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0595
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