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Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract

In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1977

Alice Kipp papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0492
Abstract

The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.

Dates: 1986-2006

Alice McMurry papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract

Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993-2001

Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0587
Abstract

Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Bessie Wilkerson papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0320
Abstract

Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1994

Betty Boller oral history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0290
Abstract

Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1999

Blanche Basye Gilmore papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0616
Abstract

Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1970

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

Days Gone By: Reminiscences of Northwest Iowa

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0601
Abstract

Typescript of an oral history project by Sibley-Ocheyedan High School students interviewing six residents of Osceola County.

Dates: 1992

Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0465
Abstract

Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991

Ernella Van Horn papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0724
Abstract

The second of four generations of women in her family to play basketball in Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993-2001

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Eva Donelson Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0355
Abstract

Native of Ogden, Iowa, and professor of nutrition at colleges in the United States and Brazil.

Dates: 1994

Faye T. Wookey papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0699
Abstract

Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2000

Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0331
Abstract

Oral history project of the Iowa Women's Archives.

Dates: 1997-1998

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

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0244
Abstract

Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.

Dates: 1983-2007

Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract

Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.

Dates: 1984-1992

Histories of Rural Iowa Women's Clubs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0714
Abstract

Rural women participated in a great number and variety of clubs.  This collection has short histories of a variety of clubs formed in Iowa in the first part of the 20th century.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1996-1998

Ina Loewenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0735
Abstract

Research materials for her book, The View From 70: Women's Recollections and Reflections, published in 2004.

Dates: 1999-2007

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Balster, Stella Werden 1
Basgall, Carol 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1
Berry, Jean, 1938- 1
Berry, Venise T. 1
Bishop, Nellie, 1904-1999 1
Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Bloom, Isabel 1
Bob's Creek Neighbors (Club : Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Bolden, Louise, 1922- 1
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Bonfiglio, Ruth, 1918-2008 1
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Braverman, Rosalie, 1910-2010 1
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Brinton, Ada Mae Brown, 1891-1988 1
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Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Cadoret, Jeanne 1
Carlson, Agnes Bollesen 1
Carr, Martha Ashby 1
Chavenelle, Gail 1
Clark family 1
Clark, M. Maeve 1
Coleman, Susan 1
Cook, Marie 1
Corothers family 1
Corothers, Margaret Strang, 1871-1934 1
Cox, Marvel Kohlhoff 1
Coy, Gretchen Greta 1
Davis, June, 1940- 1
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Dungy, Madgetta, 1942- 1
Edle, Jerry 1
Ekstrand, Rebecca 1
Ellinwood, Sheryl 1
Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" 1
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Francis, Betty 1
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Girard family 1
Girard, Madge Clark, 1904-2000 1
Glickman, Miriam Wijkman 1
Goff family 1
Grand Meadow Women's Club (Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Grant-Hutchison, Sarah 1
Greazel, Shana 1
Grow family 1
Grow, Esther Mae Christensen, 1891-1993 1
Hall, Laurie Elizabeth Talbot 1
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Harrison County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
Heinicke, Janet 1
Hemann, Brian 1
Herdman, Susan 1
Hettermansperger, Sue 1
Hiatt, Arthur 1
Hiatt, Emily 1
Hiatt, Ettie 1
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Howe, Maureen 1
Hunter, Mary Ankeny, 1870- 1
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Iowa Mother of the Year 1
Iowa State Teachers College 1
Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission 1
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project 1
Jack, Jill, 1957- 1
James, Barbara 1
Janz, Kathleen 1
Jensen, Jill 1
Jester, Peggy 1
Joffe-Bouska, Marcia 1
Johnson, Helen Warren, 1908- 1
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