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Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0454
Abstract
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1897-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract
Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Four folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1998-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernadine Solberg papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Dates:
1855-1980; 1940-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Larson Boyum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0194
Abstract
Ellsworth, Iowa, woman who served in World War II.
Dates:
1943-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bernice Zimmer papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0876
Bette Brooks Stone papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0360
Abstract
Mapleton, Iowa high school student who sent telegrams for Western Union during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Blanca Vasquez Gaines papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0899
Abstract
Puerto Rican woman who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Dates:
1944-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0868
Abstract
Correspondence, chiefly love letters, between amateur printers Smith and Turnepseed, together with a few additional materials, including copies of their co-edited Literary Newsette. Many of Smith's letters document his activities training as a navigator in the United States Army Air Force, 1943-1944.
Dates:
1941-1944
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Claudine Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0446
Abstract
Harris worked in radiation detection instrumentation. She was active in the Johnson County League of Women Voters and the Johnson County Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Dates:
1903-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Constance Frick Irwin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0208
Abstract
Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dora Jane Hamblin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0087
Abstract
Iowa native who wrote for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, LIFE magazine, and other periodicals.
Dates:
1937-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dorothy Sprout Place memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0384
Abstract
Reflections on life as a farmwoman and young mother during World War II.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Eleanor Eyestone Trummel papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0518
Abstract
Home demonstration agent for Iowa State College Extension Service and homemaker.
Dates:
1916-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Lindsay Tatum papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0824
Abstract
Peace activist and Quaker who lived in Southern Rhodesia from 1960 to 1964.
Dates:
1900-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Emma Lou Leeper Phelan papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0226
Abstract
Brooklyn, Iowa, native who was a riveter for Ryan Aeronautical Company in California, 1944 to 1945.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Entre Nous records (Iowa City, Iowa)
Collection
Identifier: IWA0081
Abstract
Women's drama study club founded in 1914 in Iowa City.
Dates:
1914-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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