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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

Carl and Laura White papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0904
Abstract

Letters to Iowa resident Laura Birgen from Carl White who served in the U.S. Army in France during and after World War I.

Dates: 1918-1993

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

Edith Neal papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0660
Abstract

Known as the Vietnam Mail Lady, Neal corresponded with servicemen stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.

Dates: 1931-1997

Harriet Adeline Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0707
Abstract

Teacher of nutrition education and dietetics; U. S. Army Second Lieutenant who served as a medical hospital dietician at Camp Gordon, Georgia during World War II.

Dates: 1928-1994

Kathy Ormond papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0703
Abstract

Red Cross recreation aide who was stationed in Vietnam from July 1968 to October 1969.

Dates: 1966-2007

Louise Liers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0570
Abstract

World War I Army nurse from Clayton, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-1983

Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0471
Abstract

A German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.

Dates: 1917-1988

Manuel and David Macias papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0887
Abstract

Brothers who emigrated to Bettendorf, Iowa, from Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1914 and 1915.



Arrangement

The full extent of the Manuel and David Macias collection is preserved in the Iowa Digital Library.

Dates: 1890-2009

Marion Cox Lichty papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0116
Abstract

Waterloo, Iowa native who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II and then in the United States Air Force Reserve.

Dates: 1942-1989

Mary Frances Reger-Wilkinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0501
Abstract

Social worker who worked for the American National Red Cross during and after World War II.

Dates: 1942-2002

Mary Vasquez Olvera papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0559
Abstract

Davenport, Iowa, woman whose parents came to Iowa from Mexico in the 1910s.

Dates: 1923-2003

Paisley Family Diaries Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0450
Abstract

Diaries of John and Chloe Paisley. John served in the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War, and later lived in Burlington, Iowa. Also includes diaries kept by Mabel Paisley and Susan Swan Lippitt. Contains Civil War diaries.

Dates: 1864-1918

Roberta Pendleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0341
Abstract

Sioux City, Iowa resident who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1943-1996

Rosemary Tharp papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0114
Abstract

Cedar Falls native who served in the WAVES during World War II.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1940-1994

Virginia Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0058
Abstract

Community activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1829-2010

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Birgen, Lorinda "Laura", 1898-1963 1
Birgen, Martina 1
Brown, Gerald 1
Dakota Dunes Country Club (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) 1
Ehrhardt, Louis 1
Eversmeyer family 1
Eversmeyer, B. E. 1
Eversmeyer, Cora, 1876-1952 1
Fleming, Everett A. 1
Fleming, Minerva Etheline Ford 1
Fleming, Vesie 1
Gaines, Blanca Vasquez, 1918- 1
Jones, Joe Allen 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Kappa Delta Alumni Association (Iowa State College) 1
Lais, Leonore Evans 1
Lichty, Marion Cox, 1915- 1
Liers, Louise, 1887-1983 1
Macias family 1
Macias, David, 1885- 1
Macias, Manuel, 1890-1954 1
Macias, Pete 1
Macias, Rudolph Robert, 1920-2001 1
Neal, Edith, 1916-2007 1
Ohlson, Margaret 1
Olvera, Albert 1
Olvera, Augustine 1
Olvera, Mary Vásquez, 1927- 2016 1
Ormond, Kathy, 1945- 1
Paisley Family 1
Paisley, Chloe Lippitt, 1839-1925 1
Paisley, John, 1831-1909 1
Paisley, Mabel 1
Pendleton, Roberta 1
Peters, W. H. (Walter Harvest), 1885-1949 1
Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas Program 1
Reger-Wilkinson, Mary Frances, 1909-2006 1
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 1
Sioux City Boat Club (Sioux City, Iowa) 1
State University of Iowa. Department of Home Economics 1
Stevens, Harriet Adeline, 1909- 1
Swan, Susan Lippitt 1
Tharp, Herman 1
Tharp, Rosemary, 1921-1994 1
Tylee, Ben 1
Tylee, Frances 1
Tylee, Magdalena, 1894-1988 1
United States Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Air Force Reserve 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 1
United States. Navy 1
Vasquez, Albert 1
Wende family 1
White family 1
White, Carl, 1897-1989 1
Wilkinson, Bernard, -1962 1
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