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19th Century Iowa Farmer's Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MsC1222
Dates:
1897-1899; 1883; 1885
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
A. Louise Mays papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0645
Abstract
Social worker and University of Iowa professor. Arrangement There are three videocassettes in the collection. "The Road Not Taken: A Retrospective" and "80th Birthday Party" (1994) VHS and 8mm. These two videocassettes are identical except for their format. They both represent a video version of Mays's scrapbook, including photographs not contained in Mays's papers,followed by filmed footage from her eightieth birthday party on June 4, 1994."At Arm's Length" and "Raw Footage of Louise Mays" (1992) VHS. This videocassette includes a documentary on aging in Iowa, produced by Mary Frances Evans, in which Mays participated. It is followed by the unedited interview with Mays. Other persons featured on the videotape are: Estelle Alleman, Margaret Allen, Betty Atwater, Margaret Bastian, MaryEllen Buck, Robert Buck, Eileen Dawson, King Dawson, Venita Ellison, B. J.Fedler, Harold Forrester, Mildred Forrester, Helen Gore, Wayne...
Dates:
1939-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Aaron Silander papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0525
Abbie Romey papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0146
Abstract
Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Dates:
1891-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Abigail Van Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0912
Abstract
Iowa City resident who worked to preserve and restore Iowa City landmarks including the Old Capitol building.
Dates:
1968-2008
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Academic Records of Closed Iowa Institutions of Higher Learning; Office of the Registrar Historical Student Records
Collection
Identifier: RG24.0001.003
Scope and Contents
List of closed institutions for which the University of Iowa maintains student academic records [updated 2023 June]: AIB (Des Moines) (also known as AIB College of Business);
Amity College (College Springs, Page County);
Broadlawns School of Nursing (Des Moines);
Capital City Commercial College (Des Moines);
Cherokee Junior College (Cherokee);
Covenant Radiological School;
Des Moines University (Des Moines, 1865–1929; not affiliated with the current Des Moines University operation);
Grundy College (Grundy Center);
Iowa Lutheran School of Nursing (Des Moines);
Iowa Methodist School of Nursing (Des Moines);
Iowa Wesleyan University (Mount Pleasant);
Jennie Edmundson Hospital School of Nursing (Council Bluffs);
Keokuk College (Keokuk);
Marshalltown Community School of Nursing (Marshalltown);
Marycrest University (Davenport);
Memorial University (Mason City);
Midwestern...
Dates:
1865 - 2023
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Action Studies Program Records
Collection
Identifier: RG02.0002.001
Dates:
1968-1979
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Ad Hoc Committee on Retirement Records
Collection
Identifier: RG05.0003.032
Dates:
1978 - 1979
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract
Arrangement
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adelia M. Hoyt papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0844
Abstract
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Dates:
1915-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adelia St. John Gates papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0728
Abstract
Arrangement
Graduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1863-1865
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Adrien Wing papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: IWA1095
Abstract
Black attorney, faculty and Associate Dean at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Dates:
1990-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
African American Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG06.0004.001
Dates:
-
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Aging Studies Records
Collection
Identifier: RG06.0041.002
Dates:
1978 - 2008
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Aime Wichtendahl oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: IWA1347
Scope and Contents
The Aime Wichtendahl oral history collection consists of the recording and transcript of one oral history interview conducted with Wichtendahl by Kate Orazem in 2023. The collection also contains a business card and a button representing Wichtendahl's campaign promotional materials.In her oral history interview, Wichtendahl discusses the development of her political beliefs, campaigns, and her experiences as a city councilor for Hiawatha, Iowa. Municipal topics covered in the interview include the passage of a higher minimum wage for Linn County in 2017, zoning and housing development, and strategies Wichtendahl used to lower property taxes while maintaining service levels in her community. Wichtendahl also narrates her personal biography, including reflections on growing up trans in an Iowa Christian family, memories of political awakening, her coming-out process, her divorce, and parenthood. She provides her analysis of anti-trans legislation in Iowa in the 2020s and...
Dates:
2023
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Al M. Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MsC0851
Abstract
Graduate of the Writers' Workshop, novelist and poet. This collection contains manuscripts, clippings, a photograph, and correspondence. Correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy, Mark Strand, Cleanth Brooks, and Donald Justice among others.
Dates:
1957-1994
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Albert A. Couch Papers
Collection
Identifier: MsC0065
Abstract
Labor leader. Correspondence, reports, and clippings relating to a proposed hydroelectric dam at Moscow, Iowa.
Dates:
1940-1951; Majority of material found within 1940-1943
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Albert Foster Dawson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MsC0067
Abstract
U.S. Representative from Iowa and businessman. Speeches on various topics.
Dates:
1904-1942
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections