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20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 644 Collections and/or Records:

Nick Thimmesch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0709
Abstract

Journalist with Time and Newsday, where he began a column nationally syndicated in 1969. Author of several books. Correspondence, research, interviews, audio tapes, photographs, speeches, reporter's notebooks, and preliminary drafts of his works.

Dates: 1956-1985; 1970-1989

Nissen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0073
Abstract

Biographical materials relate to Walnut, Iowa clubwoman Wilma Parker Nissen and her daughters.

Dates: 1936-1996

Noble Photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0031
Abstract

Postcards and photographs of Iowa includes the work of professional women photographers in Iowa.

Dates: 1874-1996

Norma Peg Burke papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0164
Abstract Physical education professor at the University of Iowa and past president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, 1976-1977. Arrangement Abbreviation list: AAPHER: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation AAU: Amateur Athletic Union ABAUSA: Amateur Basketball Association of the United States of America AIAW: Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women HEW: Health Education and Welfare department (Now Health and Human Services) ISPEDS: International Sports and Physical Education Data System IWPS: International Women's Professional Softball NAGWS: National Association for Girls and Women in Sport NAIA: National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics NAPECW: National Association for Physical Education of College Women NASPE: National Association for Sport and Physical Education NCAA: National...
Dates: 1965-1995

Norse Club records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0845
Abstract

Founded in Iowa City in 1937 to celebrate its members' Norwegian heritage.

Dates: 1930-2009

Off and Holsteen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0306
Abstract

Two generations of an eastern Iowa family, many generations of which attended the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1864-1970

Olabelle Reed papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0343
Abstract

Teacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1935-1997

Olson/Clampitt memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0736
Abstract

Memoirs of life in rural Iowa.

Dates: 1933-1995

Oneita Griggs Fisher papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0855
Abstract

Newspaper columnist and writer from Washington County, Iowa, who was interested in conservation and historic preservation.

Dates: 1932-1967

OOP (Marion, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0528
Abstract

Women's study club founded in 1867 by young women who had attended the Marion Female Seminary.

Dates: 1867-2005

Opal Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0359
Abstract

Democrat, educator and clubwoman who served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the 1970s.

Dates: 1960-1998

Ortha P. Neff papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0561
Abstract

Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.

Dates: 1944-2006

Otha Wearin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0807
Abstract

The papers of a Congressman from Iowa in 1932, 1934, and 1936 who was also a writer and was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame for his westerns.

Dates: 1931-1990

Otilia Gomez Savala papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0827
Abstract

Davenport woman raised in the Cook's Point neighborhood, whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1937-2014

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

Palmer/Calkins/Corbin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0528
Abstract

Letters, diaries, genealogies, papers, and videocassette dealing with the Civil War, the Mormon move west, and World War II.

Dates: 1859-2000; Majority of material found within 1864-1865

Palo Alto Garden Club (Emmetsburg, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0574
Abstract

Garden club in Emmetsburg, Iowa.

Dates: 1959-1994

Papers of Ruth Suckow

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0706
Abstract

This collection is comprised of photographs, letters, paintings, and manuscripts of Ruth Suckow, family, and friends.

Dates: 1887-1988

Patricia Filipowska papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0147
Abstract

Poet and native of Burlington, Iowa.



Arrangement

The Well (Lexington, MA: R.E. Filipowski, c1993) is shelved with printed works, in the Iowa Authors Collection in the Special Collections Department, and in the general collection in the Main Library.

Dates: 1930-1997

Patricia Geadelmann papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0812
Abstract

Feminist and physical educator who was a strong proponent of the ERA and Title IX.

Dates: 1965-2006