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Almira Safely Rutledge papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0068
Abstract

Early, Iowa, wife and mother.

Dates: 1885-1950

Augusta Gustafson Swanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0072
Abstract

Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)

Dates: 1884-1993

Bernadine Solberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract

Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.

Dates: 1855-1980

Bertha Hedges papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0846
Abstract

A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.

Dates: 1870-2014

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

Carrie Lindahl papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0638
Abstract

Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.

Dates: 1875-2001

Cora Eversmeyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0418
Abstract

The daughter of a German immigrant who was born and raised on a farm in Lee County, Iowa.

Dates: 1848-1950

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

Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0460
Abstract

University of Iowa alumna and clubwoman. She wrote a column for the Iowa City Press Citizen during World War II.

Dates: 1929-1993

Ellen Mowrer Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract

Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.

Dates: 1856-1994

Elvira Gaston Platt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0181
Abstract

Teacher and abolitionist who assisted fleeing slaves on the Underground Railroad while living in Fremont County, Iowa. Taught school to Pawnee children in Pennsylvania and Nebraska.

Dates: 1853-1974

Ida "Belle" Bandfield Holden papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0062
Abstract

Schoolteacher in the Waterloo area at the turn of the century.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1840-1981

Jennie Sies papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0496
Abstract

Diary of a young Oxford, Iowa farm woman who died on October 3, 1880.

Dates: 1880

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

Leona Call papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0161
Abstract

Professor of Greek at the State University of Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1886-1943

Lucy Van Voorhis White papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0074
Abstract

Schoolteacher and farm wife of Dallas County, Iowa.

Dates: 1861-1939

Margaret Atherton Bonney papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0313
Abstract

Bonney's research files include Iowa suffragist Mary Jane Coggeshall, scientist Mary Louise Putnam, physician Jennie McCowen, and pioneer evangelist and minister, Abner Kneeland

Dates: 1810-1992

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Marta Werner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0361
Abstract

Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.

Dates: 1892-1989

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Bowersox, Dorothy LeVier 1
Bowersox, Edna 1
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Bowersox, Mary Margaret Shuey 1
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Bradley, David Ogden, 1827-1895 1
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Bradley, Rhoda Ogden 1
Brown, Bill 1
Brown, Gerald 1
Brown, Harriet Connor, 1872- 1
Brown, Maria Dean Foster, 1827-1929 1
Call, Leona, 1857-1943 1
Clionian Club (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Coggeshall, Mary Jane Whitely, 1836-1911 1
Coggon Ladies' Literary Society (Coggon, Iowa) 1
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Davenport Academy of Sciences 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
Delta Zeta Sorority 1
Dubuque Ladies' Literary Association (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Ettinger, Rose, 1877-1909 1
Eversmeyer family 1
Eversmeyer, B. E. 1
Eversmeyer, Cora, 1876-1952 1
Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Fitch, Abijah 1
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Fullerton, Grace, 1879-1972 1
Fullerton, William J. 1
Hageboeck, Eleanor Gildner, 1908- 1
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Harsha, Cathryn McCleery 1
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Hedges, Bertha, 1887-1978 1
Hedges, Charles 1
Hedges, Mildred 1
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Keran, Amy Halferty 1
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Keyes, Catharine 1
Keyes, Charles R. (Charles Reuben), 1871-1951 1
Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-2015 1
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Keyes, Marsden 1
Keyes, Martha Whittington 1
Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844 1
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Lacy, Benjamin 1
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Leff family 1
Leff, Nellie Josephine, 1884-1972 1
Leith, Gladys Trimble, 1907- 1
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Middlebrook, Emma Bradley 1
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Miller, Albert, 1843-1938 1
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Miller, Ellen Mowrer, 1848-1922 1
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