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Arlene Jens papers
Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.
Arlene Morris papers
Clinical psychologist and University of Iowa alumna who was a member of the Des Moines Know Your Neighbor panel.
Artists in Action (Muscatine, Iowa) records
Muscatine organization of area artists who opened a shop and organized an annual craft fair, classes, and craft demonstrations.
Asian American Coalition Records
The Asian American Coalition collection primarily documents the first ten years of the organization’s existence from 1998 to 2008 with a smaller percentage of documents being from after 2009 to 2014. The collection contains documents such as the founding constitution, an issues paper which laid out why the organization was necessary, internal emails between the original student leaders which highlight their goals as an organization, communications with the University administration where they expressed many of their demands to the University, fliers and meeting notes for the various events they hosted on campus and in the community, and early newspaper coverage of the organization from the Daily Iowan.
Athens History Circle (Iowa City, Iowa) records
Audubon Society of Manchester (Iowa) records
Eastern Iowa women's study and social club.
Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement
Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Azalia Mitchell papers
Mitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.
Barbara Burrell Nichols papers
Mother from Ames, Iowa who died of polio in 1955.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Barbara Coffin papers
City hostess and policewoman from Waterloo, Iowa.
Barbara Fassbinder papers
Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.
Barbara Flanagan papers
Reporter, women's page editor, and columnist for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune from the 1940s until 1988.
Barbara M. Calderon papers
Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Barbara Wommack papers
Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.
Basilisa Herrera papers
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Benita Allen papers
Russian immigrant recalls her childhood in Russia during World War I and the 1917 revolution.
Bernadine Solberg papers
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
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