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Iowa City chapter.

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The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.

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Materials relate to the suit filed by 3 dental hygiene faculty members charging that the scheduled closing of the University of Iowa Dental Hygiene Program was discriminatory.

Arrangement

Appeal Documents, 1995-1996 (Boxes 19-20)

Background Information, 1985-1995 (Boxes 20-24, 27)

Defendant Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 6-10)

Formal Documents, 1991-1995 (Boxes 1-3)

Letters of Support, 1991-1995 (Boxes 25-26)

Newspaper Clippings, 1991-1996 (Box 26)

Plaintiff Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 11-19, 27)

Trial Transcripts, 1995 (Boxes 3-6)

Unidentified Exhibits, 1995 (Boxes 10-11)

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Photographs, brochures, correspondence, financial papers, and brochures from several chautauquas.

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A women's investment club organized to invest the assets of the partnership solely in stocks, bonds, and securities, for the education and benefit of the partners.

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Correspondence, account books, reports, lists, attendance registers, minutes, rosters of officers, publicity material, programs, and financial records.

Abstract Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1938, the Curtis Companies were a conglomerate of associated sash, door, and millwork companies that eventually consolidated into a single corporation. Includes correspondence, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, stockbooks, and minute books, with correspondence of U.S. Representative George M. Curtis.This collection consists almost entirely of financial ledgers for a Clinton, IA company founded in 1886 that specialized in architectural woodworking. Over the years it absorbed many other, smaller companies.Apart from financial records, there appears to be six indexed letter press books dating 1900-1904; one annual report with some text from the 1930s; an 1893 printed volume describing the company's products; and ditto drafts (the longest about 60 pages) of "The Evolution of Woodwork: A History of the Curtis Companies from Founding in 1886 to the 75th Anniversary in 1941." Arrangement...

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Business records of a liquidated Davenport, Iowa, locomotive manufacturing company.

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The first licensed out-of-hospital birth center in Iowa, specializing in nurse-midwifery.

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Women's organization to fund and assist programs that create opportunities for women and girls in Iowa.

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Bacteriologist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, 1940s to ca. 1960.

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The local chapter gives scholarships to students interested in construction careers, sponsors an annual golf outing and provides social networking opportunities for women who work in construction.

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The club formed in 1915 near Manchester, Iowa for women to discuss aspects of rural, farm and family life.

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of the financial documents and miscellaneous papers.

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Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.

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Commercial lecture bureau and booking agency for Chautauqua and lyceums throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Office files of the Redpath-Vawter Bureau of Cedar Rapids, IA, the Redpath-Chicago Bureau run by Harry P. Harrison and Charles Horner's Redpath Chautauquas. Included are: talent files consisting of correspondence, contracts, publicity brochures, and advertising flyers; business files including employee records; geographical location files with materials about cities and towns that sponsored Chautauquas and lyceums; periodicals; daybooks, cashbooks; and photographs.

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Private press founded and operated by Allan and Cinda Kornblum in Iowa City in 1970. Comprised of subject files, correspondence, financial records, etc. relating to the daily operations and literary output of the private press.

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A women's club concerned primarily with philanthropic and social activities.

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Adair County, Iowa, farm woman. Papers include household accounting ledgers.

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A social and benevolent women's club initially formed as a Red Cross sewing club during World War I.