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Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

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

Rowene Danbom papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0494
Abstract

Journalist who worked at the International News Service in Des Moines, Iowa during World War II and became its first woman bureau chief.

Dates: 1941-1987

Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0489
Abstract

Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.

Dates: 1915-2002

Ruth Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0498
Abstract

Journalist who worked for the Stars and Stripes in postwar Europe.

Dates: 1957-2002

Stewart Stern Papers (this collection is currently being re-processed)

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0440
Abstract

American motion picture and television screenwriter. Primarily material documenting his career, with research notebooks, rough dra s and final versions of many of his screen and teleplays, along with photographs from the productions. Also personal material including correspondence and his education and military records.

Dates: 1931-1983

Stong Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0819
Abstract

Correspondence of Alice Stong details her undergraduate experiences at The University of Iowa.

Dates: 1887-2007

Sue M. Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0130
Abstract

Republican Party activist and officer of Iowa and National Federations of Republican Women, 1950s-1970s.

Dates: 1934-1996

Sylvia M. Stoesser papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0047
Abstract

University of Iowa graduate in 1928 with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. She was the first woman chemist to work for Dow Chemical Company.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1952-1992

Theodore F. Koop Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0642
Abstract

Journalist with the Associated Press before WWII, with the National Geographic Society and CBS after 1948. He conceived Face the Nation. Correspondence, subject files, speeches, and preliminary drafts of his works.

Dates: 1940-1976

University of Iowa Department of Physical Education for Women records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0106
Abstract

The department was established in 1924 and was a pioneer in the development of graduate study and professional training. The department existed until 2010 under a variety of names and organizations.

Dates: 1900-2010

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

Virginia Tanner Simonsen papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0433
Abstract

Cherokee, Iowa-born woman who enrolled at Iowa State College in home economics and later moved to Quimby, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1941-1943

W. Earl Hall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0193
Abstract

Editor and publisher of the Mason City Globe Gazette. Papers relating to his career and civic activities. Subject files, correspondence, speeches, and editorials reflect his work for such organizations as the Red Cross, Radio Free Europe, and the Iowa State Board of Regents.

Dates: 1917-1969

War Brides of World War II papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0215
Abstract

1995 honors thesis of University of Iowa undergraduate student, Rachel Casteel.

Dates: 1946-1996

Wes Bartlett memoir

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0755
Abstract

A Collection of Memories of the Algona Prisoner of War Camp, 1943-1946, compiled by Wes Bartlett.

Dates: 1943 - 1946

Zella May Gerber papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0282
Abstract

A secretary who worked in Alaska in 1943 and at the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant in Tennessee from 1944 to 1945.

Dates: 1943-1947

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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 2
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Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
Allen family 1
Allen, George Eugene, 1887-1944 1
Allen, Hilda Ellyson, 1988- 1
Allen, Philip, 1915- 1
Allen, Sewell E., 1913-1975 1
Alliance for the Mentally Ill 1
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American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1
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American Friends Service Committee 1
American Legion 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women 1
Atlantic High School (Atlantic, Iowa) 1
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1916-1997 1
Baker, Hermione Georgette Allen, 1917- 1
Bartlett, Wes 1
Black Hills Playhouse (Theater group) 1
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Boller, Betty, 1924- 1
Boone High School (Boone, Iowa) 1
Bowen, Howard Rothmann, 1908- 1
Boyd, June Lundy, 1922- 1
Boyum, Bernice Larson, 1922- 1
Burgess family 1
Burgess, Nellie 1
Burr Oak Farm Press 1
CBS Television Network 1
Calhoun, John N. 1
Calkin, Homer L. 1
Camp Algona (Algona, Iowa) 1
Camp Shows, Inc. 1
Casteel, Rachel 1
Child, Charlotte Joiner 1
Church of the Brethren Conference 1
Clarence E. Hamilton, Lawyer 1
Clark, Marion Jones, 1916-2011 1
Coe College 1
Coffin, Winnie 1
Colorado. Department of Highways 1
Cook, Jeanne Jones, 1927-1993 1
Cooper, Fannie Wilson 1
Costantino, A. Mori, 1924 - 2020 1
Costantino, Anthony 1
Coy, Gretchen Anton, 1923- 1
Crary, Julia 1
Curtiss-Wright Corporation 1
Dakota Dunes Country Club (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) 1
Danbom, Rowene, 1920- 1
Davis, Laura Hutchison, 1916-1993 1
Davis, Lloyd L. 1
Delta Zeta Sorority 1
Denison, Ella Strong 1
Des Moines Suffrage Club 1
Dow Chemical Company 1
Dow Chemical Physics Lab 1
Drake College of Pharmacy 1
Easton, Elsie 1
England, Artis 1
Entre Nous (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Erickson family 1
Evans, Joseph E. 1
Evans, Mary 1
Fairfield Junior High School (Fairfield, Iowa) 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Fatherson, Editha Phillips 1
Fisher, Gladys 1
Fleming, Everett A. 1
Fleming, Minerva Etheline Ford 1
Fleming, Vesie 1
Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
Fox family 1
Fox, Margaret, 1912-2010 1
Fullerton family 1
Fullerton, Grace, 1879-1972 1
Fullerton, William J. 1
Gaines, Blanca Vasquez, 1918- 1
Galer, Heidi Posch Keir (1943) 1
Gerber, Zella May, 1904-1997 1
Gingery, Joseph 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Gunderson, Helen, 1945- 1
Hageboeck, Eleanor Gildner, 1908- 1
Hall, W. Earl 1
Halsey, Elizabeth, 1890- 1
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