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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

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

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

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

Jeanne Van Kley papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0388
Abstract

Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-1998

Joy Smith Lewallen memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0738
Abstract

This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1985

June Lundy Boyd papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0479
Abstract

Memoir describes growing up and teaching in southwestern Iowa, Lundy's wartime wedding and subsequent life in Knoxville, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2002

Lela Aurilla Yost memoir

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0325
Abstract

Schoolteacher and farm wife near Mason City and Kesley, Iowa.



Arrangement

Shelved in printer works, CT 275.Y48 AC 1990

Dates: 1995

Lois McIntyre Schutte papers

 Collection — Folder 1: Series 1
Identifier: IWA0678
Abstract

Two memoirs of an Iowa farm woman.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1991-1993

Madge Clark Girard papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract

Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1991

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Ackeman, Karen 1
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Basgall, Carol 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Bishop, Nellie, 1904-1999 1
Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Bob's Creek Neighbors (Club : Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Brinton, Ada Mae Brown, 1891-1988 1
Bruggmann, Charles 1
Bruggmann, Dominique 1
Bruggmann, Sibylle 1
Buckley, Susan C. 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Cadoret, Jeanne 1
Carlson, Agnes Bollesen 1
Carr, Martha Ashby 1
Clark family 1
Clark, M. Maeve 1
Corothers family 1
Corothers, Margaret Strang, 1871-1934 1
Edle, Jerry 1
Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" 1
Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 1
Francis, Betty 1
Geiger, Nira, 1901- 1
Geiken, Freida, 1895- 1
Giddings, Marie, 1908- 1
Girard family 1
Girard, Madge Clark, 1904-2000 1
Glickman, Miriam Wijkman 1
Grand Meadow Women's Club (Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Greazel, Shana 1
Grow family 1
Grow, Esther Mae Christensen, 1891-1993 1
Harris family 1
Harrison County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
Hemann, Brian 1
Howe, Maureen 1
Iowa State Teachers College 1
Jack, Jill, 1957- 1
Janz, Kathleen 1
Kausch, Lani 1
Keir family 1
Kipp, Alice, 1918- 1
Lacina, Kim 1
Lewallen, Joy Smith 1
Lewis, Catherine 1
Ludemann family 1
Ludemann, Richard, -1946 1
Lynch, Elizabeth Fagan, 1908- 1
Mahaska County Farm Bureau. Women's Committee 1
McDowall family 1
McKenzie, Bettie 1
McLay, Angus 1
McLay, Annabelle J. 1
McPherson College 1
Messenger, Franklin Lloyd 1
Messenger, Ruth Perkins, 1899-2000 1
Milloy, Nancy Ashby 1
Minowa Rug Guild (Winneshiek County, Iowa) 1
Mishler, Laura 1
Mishler, Margaret 1
Mumford, Ruth, 1908- 1
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 1
Ohio State University 1
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Pickup, Sandra 1
Post-Franklin Township Club (Allamakee County, Iowa) 1
Rogers, Opal 1
Roseman, Dennis 1
Roseman, Robin 1
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Schmuecker family 1
Schmuecker, Hazelle Keir, 1907-2007 1
Schroeder, Alvena, 1899-1989 1
Schueler, Allegra, 1904- 1
Schutte, Lois Mcintyre, 1928- 1
Smith, Gertrude, 1899-1989 1
Strang family 1
Strang, John 1
Taylor, Leslie 1
Teeple, Velma Skott, 1913-2005 1
Ten Benton County Women Oral History Project (Vinton, Iowa) 1
United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Volunteers, 11th Regiment 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Minnesota 1
Van Horn, Ernella, 1932- 1
Van Kley, Jeanne, 1916- 1
Wallace Women History Project 1
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Warner, Betty Ann 1
Watson, Ann 1
Wijkman, Ruth Wallace 1
Williams, Esther, 1902- 1
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