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20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 640 Collections and/or Records:

University of Iowa Department of Home Economics records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0720
Abstract

Provided training in a variety of careers including dieticians, extension agents, designers, and homemakers.

Dates: 1913-1991

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

University of Iowa Department of Physical Education for Women: Women's Recreation Association records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0691
Abstract

WRA provided college women opportunities to participate in sports, either intramural or as a member of a sport club

Dates: 1920-1975

University of Iowa Women's Softball records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1046
Abstract

Photographs and related ephemera from Gayle Blevins’ tenure as the University of Iowa women’s softball head coach.

Dates: 1989-2011

Van Zante and De Cook Families papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0721
Abstract

Late 19th century diary of adolescent Dutch-American farm girl and 1932 farm diary of her daughter-in-law.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1888-1969

Velma Carney papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0560
Abstract

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

Dates: 1908-2004

Velma Stuit scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0212
Abstract

Wife of Dean of University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and organizer of Newcomers Club in 1938 and International Wives Club in 1959.

Dates: 1934-1990

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

Vera Shivvers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0464
Abstract

Iowa farm woman who was elected to fill her husband's term in the Iowa Senate following his death in 1962.

Dates: 1914-1990

Verda Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract

Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.

Dates: 1965-2004

Verna Moulton Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0145
Abstract

Maquoketa, Iowa, native who owned and operated Spencer's Harmony Hall with her husband from 1912 to 1962.

Dates: 1899-1994

Vina Thorpe papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0253
Abstract

Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.

Dates: 1893-1995

Viola Nesfield Owen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0801
Abstract

Mother and piano teacher living in Wisconsin, cooresponding with family in Waterloo, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-1963

Violet Greiner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0389
Abstract

Farmwoman, columnist, and volunteer from Blairsburg, Iowa who wrote a monthly column for the Rural Electric Cooperative News.

Dates: 1960-1999

Virginia Harper papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0199
Abstract

One of five African American women who integrated Currier Hall at the University of Iowa in 1946. Former president of the Fort Madison chapter of the NAACP.

Dates: 1940-2005

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 Randolph papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0115
Abstract

Anamosa, Iowa, poet and niece of Elizabeth Wherry.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1929-1993

Wagner Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0475
Abstract

Materials from the lives of two sisters, Eva Wagner and Grace Wagner Patten, and one sister-in-law, Alice Nicolet Wagner.

Dates: 1903-1994

Wallace Stegner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0703
Abstract

Award-winning novelist, story writer, essayist, historian, English professor at Stanford, and frontline conservationist. Preliminary drafts and proofs for seven novels.

Dates: 1957 - 1977

Walling Family papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0124
Abstract

Oskaloosa family whose daughter Ivyl Walling Welton graduated from Grinnell College and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1919-1991