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Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0708
Abstract

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

Anita Crawford papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0599
Abstract

Buchanan County farmwoman who was active in the Farm Bureau and county historical society.

Dates: 1939-1998

Autobiographical Sketches of Rural Iowa Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0407
Abstract

Reminiscences of Iowa Farm Bureau women donated to the Rural Women's Project.



Arrangement

Four folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1998-1999

Bridging the Generations Exhibit: Master Farm Homemakers Guild records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0589
Abstract

This exhibit was created by the Master Farm Homemakers Guild to publicize their history in Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1992-2001

Cedar Valley Community Club (Muscatine County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0594
Abstract

Club formed in 1920 by rural women living near West Liberty, Iowa.

Dates: 1922-2009

Cleona Township Women's Club (Scott County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0440
Abstract

Scott County, Iowa, Farm Bureau women's club.

Dates: 1960-1989

Dallner and Petersen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0484
Abstract

Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.

Dates: 1907-2001

Emeline Fuhrmeister papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0613
Abstract

Widowed farmwoman who lived at the homes of her various children.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1908

Esther Christensen papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0596
Abstract

65-page memoir of Fayette County, Iowa farmwoman.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1908-1987

Evelyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0126
Abstract

Cookbooks, newsletters, and other publications of the Radio Homemakers who broadcast over KMA and KFNF in southwest Iowa.

Dates: 1924-2021

Freedom Township Women's Club (Palo Alto County) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0383
Abstract

Social club founded in 1923. Presentations were given on food preservation, nutrition, sewing, and tailoring.

Dates: 1923-1998

Friendly Neighbors Club (Percival, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0178
Abstract

Social club organized in April 1935 by farm wives living southeast of Percival, Iowa.

Dates: 1935-2000

Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract

Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.

Dates: 1984-1992

Inez Christen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0469
Abstract

Transcribed diaries of a Northeast Iowa hired girl, farmwoman and mother.

Dates: 1922-2000

Johnson Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0717
Abstract

Letters exchanged among members of this Cresco, Iowa, family.



Arrangement

2 folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1903-1925

June Lundy Boyd papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0479
Abstract

Memoir describes growing up and teaching in southwestern Iowa, Lundy's wartime wedding and subsequent life in Knoxville, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2002

Nancy De Vries Blom papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0387
Abstract

Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF. My Story by Nancy Blom shelved in printed works: CT275 .B5795 A3 1982

Dates: 1982-1986

Olson/Clampitt memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0736
Abstract

Memoirs of life in rural Iowa.

Dates: 1933-1995

Vera Shepard Cronkhite papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0600
Abstract

Southwest Iowa rural schoolteacher during the 1920s and 1930s. Taught in town schools an additional 20 years.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1927-2001

Virginia Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0540
Abstract

Scrapbooks of Bremer County, Iowa, Farm Bureau woman.

Dates: 1976-1993

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American Association of University Women 1
Bassett, Ella 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
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Blom, Nancy De Vries, 1907-1993 1
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Brinton, Ada Mae Brown, 1891-1988 1
Buchanan County Farm Bureau (Iowa). Women's Committee 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Cedar Valley Community Club (Muscatine County, Iowa) 1
Christen family 1
Christen, Inez, 1906-1999 1
Christensen, Esther, 1895-1987 1
Clampitt, Frank T., 1860-1943 1
Cleona Township Women's Club (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Crawford family 1
Crawford, Anita, 1909-1998 1
Cronkhite, Vera Shepard, 1906-2003 1
Dallner family 1
Dallner, Pauline Levendahl, 1918- 1
Easton, Elsie 1
England, Artis 1
Falk, Florence 1
Fisher, Gladys 1
Freedom Township Women's Club (Palo Alto County, Iowa) 1
Friendly Neighbors Club (Percival, Iowa) 1
Fuhrmeister family 1
Fuhrmeister, Emeline 1
Geiger, Nira, 1901- 1
Geiken, Freida, 1895- 1
Hansen, Edith 1
Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Women's Committee 1
Jacobsma, Irma 1
Johnson family 1
Johnson, Donald 1
Johnson, Justine Norton 1
Johnson, Justus 1
Johnson, Lulu Grinde 1
Lauter, Laura 1
Lehman, Charlotte 1
Ludwigs, Doris 1
Master Farm Homemakers Guild (Iowa) 1
McKenzie, Bettie 1
Mohr, Charlotte 1
Mumford, Ruth, 1908- 1
Newberg, Lois 1
Nielson, Pauline Petersen, 1884- 1
Oakley, Billie 1
Oetken, Randy 1
Olson, Alice M., 1904- 1
Petersen family 1
Rural Women's Project (University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives) 1
Sallee, Dorothy, 1906- 1
Schroeder, Alvena, 1899-1989 1
Schueler, Allegra, 1904- 1
Smith, Gertrude, 1899-1989 1
Ten Benton County Women Oral History Project (Vinton, Iowa) 1
Vaughn, Charlotte 1
Westburg Township Women's Club (Buchanan County, Iowa) 1
Williams, Esther, 1902- 1
Winkie, Clara 1
Young, Jessie S. 1
Zimmerman, Doris Wright 1
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