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Japan

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf: Library Of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Anna Marie Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0909
Abstract

Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.

Dates: 1925-2000

Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract

Japanese American activist who, after being interned at the Tule Lake Japanese American internment camp with her family, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human rights and civil rights activism in Iowa City and beyond. The collection includes materials from her personal life, employment, and activism, as well as photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts.

Dates: 1924 - 2016; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06

Charles H. McCloy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0139
Abstract

University of Iowa professor of physical education, 1930 to retirement. Research specialty in anthropometry, or the analysis of motor skills.

Dates: 1907-1959

Cornelia Cameron papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0198
Abstract

Internationally recognized peat geologist from Iowa City.

Dates: 1903-1995

Gwendolyn Fowler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract

The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.

Dates: 1905-1996

Kittredge Cherry and Audrey Lockwood papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0759
Abstract

Life partners Kittredge Cherry (1957-), an author, journalist, and minister to the LGBT community, and Audrey Lockwood (1957- ), a financial planner, met as students at the University of Iowa in 1975 and lived and worked in Japan before settling in California.

Dates: 1970-2009

Lois Wescott papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0437
Abstract

Geology graduate of the University of Iowa who traveled to Japan and Venezuela to work for oil companies.

Dates: 1860-2001

Lola Moeller Zook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0462
Abstract

Newspaper editor whose papers relate to her career as a journalist and the years she spent in occupied Japan following World War II.

Dates: 1909-2004

Paul Mitchell papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0847
Abstract

An edited copy of Frances Mitchell's diary entries chronicling her journey from Seattle, Washington to Tokyo, Japan in 1948.

Dates: 1948-2007