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Bowersox and Osborn Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0500
Abstract

The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.

Dates: 1861-2002

Bradley Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0061
Abstract

Correspondence and other papers of this nineteenth-century family that resided in the Hudson River Valley of New York.

Dates: 1811-1992

Burchard Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0800
Abstract

The family lived in New York state until 1862 when they moved to Illinois before settling in Iowa in 1910. The diaries are from several generations.

Dates: 1861-2003

Dallner and Petersen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0484
Abstract

Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.

Dates: 1907-2001

De Jong Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract

Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.

Dates: 1852-2011

Falb Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0607
Abstract

Primarily newspaper clippings pertaining to girls basketball at Valley High School, West Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1959-2003

Janice A. Beran papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0149
Abstract

Professor in the College of Education at Iowa State University until her retirement in 1994. Materials relate to the history of sports and particularly the participation of women and African-Americans in Iowa sports.

Dates: 1944-1998

Johnson Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0717
Abstract

Letters exchanged among members of this Cresco, Iowa, family.



Arrangement

2 folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1903-1925

Joiner Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0815
Abstract

Iowa family that corresponded during World War II.

Dates: 1941-1945

Keyes Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0039
Abstract

Mount Vernon, Iowa, family whose papers include photographs, account books, correspondence and civil war diaries.

Dates: 1832-1992

Lemme Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0260
Abstract

Traces the family history of Helen Lemme, a civil rights activist who was named Iowa City's first Woman of the Year in 1955.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1970-1998

Margaret Strang Corothers papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0324
Abstract

Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1934

McGill Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0543
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.

Dates: 1885-2005

Nissen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0073
Abstract

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

Dates: 1936-1996

Off and Holsteen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0306
Abstract

Two generations of an eastern Iowa family, many generations of which attended the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1864-1970

Phillips and Tarbell Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0448
Abstract

Articles and essay describing the family's participation in the Iowa State Fair.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Pierce-Stuart Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0483
Abstract

Diaries of Mary Pierce describe family life in Harlan, Iowa from 1927 to 1947; Mary Clark's memoir reflects on medical challenges in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1927-1989

Pittman Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0821
Abstract

Postal card albums of Marilla and Edith Pittman.

Dates: 1838-1909

Prentiss Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0060
Abstract

The family came to Iowa City in 1905 when Henry Prentiss established the Anatomy Department at the State University of Iowa.

Dates: 1891-1996

Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

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Beran family 1
Beran, Janice A. 1
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Bowersox, Dorothy LeVier 1
Bowersox, Edna 1
Bowersox, Elizabeth C. 1
Bowersox, Fred 1
Bowersox, Jan Erkert 1
Bowersox, Lizzie E. 1
Bowersox, Mary Margaret Shuey 1
Bowersox, Thomas L. 1
Bradley family 1
Bradley, Cornelia Fitch, 1838-1893 1
Bradley, David Ogden, 1827-1895 1
Bradley, Henry 1
Bradley, Rhoda Ogden 1
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Buell, Levina Willis 1
Burchard family 1
Burchard, Celestia 1
Burns, Jean I. 1
Chenault, Phyllis, 1923-1967 1
Child, Charlotte Joiner 1
Childs, Lue Prentiss, 1902-1968 1
Childs, Malissa 1
Clark, Mary Stuart 1
Cline, Kate 1
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) 1
Corothers family 1
Corothers, Margaret Strang, 1871-1934 1
Dallner family 1
Dallner, Pauline Levendahl, 1918- 1
Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 1
De Cook family 1
De Cook, Besse De Prenger 1
De Cook, Ernest 1
De Cook, Mary Van Zante 1
De Jong family 1
De Jong, Bernard, 1918- 1
De Jong, Eunice, 1923-2012 1
De Jong, Frederick, -1942 1
De Jong, Henry, 1913-2002 1
De Jong, Jan, 1884-1965 1
De Jong, Jeanette, 1914-2004 1
De Jong, Joanne, 1927-2005 1
De Jong, Lorraine Schol, 1914-2007 1
De Jong, Trentje Beuckens, 1885-1978 1
DeLand family 1
DeLand, Ida Sherman 1
DeLand, Mary Lurene Swope, 1896-1978 1
Des Moines Women's Club 1
Dubuque Ladies' Literary Association (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Falb family 1
Falb, Kristine 1
Falb, Lee Ann 1
Falb, Linda 1
Falb, Karalee 1
Fitch, Abijah 1
Frampton, Dewitt 1
Frampton, Mary Ruby 1
Frankel, Babette Scheuerman 1
Helen Lemme Elementary School (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Holmes, Marjorie, 1910- 1
Holsteen family 1
Holsteen, Frederick Mohland 1
Hurless, Ruia Bowersox 1
Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union 1
Iowa Maternal Health League 1
Iowa State Fair 1
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Johnson family 1
Johnson, Donald 1
Johnson, Justine Norton 1
Johnson, Justus 1
Johnson, Lulu Grinde 1
Joiner Family 1
Joiner family 1
Joiner, Charles W. 1
Joiner, Melvin 1
Joiner, Otis W. 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Kearney, Barbara DeLand 1
Keck family 1
Keyes family 1
Keyes, Catharine 1
Keyes, Charles R. (Charles Reuben), 1871-1951 1
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 1
Keyes, Margaret Purves 1
Keyes, Marsden 1
Keyes, Martha Whittington 1
Kountz, Alice Cynthia Stong, 1916-1994 1
Kountz, Roy Rupert, -1971 1
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