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Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract
Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.
Dates:
1890-2003
Collection
Identifier: IWA0195
Abstract
The first licensed out-of-hospital birth center in Iowa, specializing in nurse-midwifery.
Dates:
1979-2000
Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Dates:
1908-1986
Collection
Identifier: IWA0056
Abstract
Television journalist and politician who served as Iowa Secretary of State from 1980 to 1986.
Dates:
1936-2002
Collection
Identifier: IWA0586
Scope and Contents
The Neta Andrews papers date from 1919 to 1922 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The papers primarily provide information regarding her nursing career. The correspondence consists of her acceptance into the Red Cross and a pin that was sent with the letter of congratulations. The medical literature consists of two instructional booklets about pregnancy and effective delivery practices, and an Army hospital newsletter, The Caduceus. A photograph album that apparently belonged to classmate Kay Myer depicts candid photographs of nursing students with patients at Fort Sam Houston in 1921. It also includes photographs of Neta Andrews at her Army School of Nursing Graduation in 1921 An Army Red Cross yearbook gives details on individual army nurses in 1921 as well as photographs and information on various Army hospital bases throughout the United States in that same year. The yearbook includes information about Army bases in Fort Dodge and Des Moines, Iowa and brief descriptions of Army...
Dates:
1919-1922
Collection
Identifier: IWA0334
Abstract
Prominent Des Moines families including Irma Mannheimer, her husband Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and her parents, Rose and Max Shloss—the owners of Lederer and Strauss and Company.
Dates:
1896-1986
Collection
Identifier: IWA0813
Abstract
Educational administrator and Executive Director of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.
Dates:
1980-1998
