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Iowa City (Iowa)

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

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Embroiderers' Guild of America, Plum Grove Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0794
Abstract

The guild taught needlework skills and participated in shows.

Dates: 1975-2009

Emma Goldman Clinic (Iowa City, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0466
Abstract

Feminist health clinic.



Arrangement

Administration Boxes 1-30 and 66

EGC projects Boxes 30-48 and 67

Anti-abortion movement Boxes 48-50 and 67

Pro-choice movement Boxes 50-53 and 67

Publications, EGC Boxes 53-54

Publications, non-EGC Boxes 54-56 and 67-68

Newspaper clippings Boxes 56-57 and 68

Photographs Boxes 36, 59-50, and 58-60

Scrapbook Box 61

Artifacts Boxes 38, 62-63, and 69

Audiovisual [audiocassette and videocassette collections]

Dates: 1971-2013

Emma Harvat papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0163
Abstract

First woman mayor of Iowa City, serving from 1922 to 1925.

Dates: 1920-2001

Entre Nous records (Iowa City, Iowa)

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0081
Abstract

Women's drama study club founded in 1914 in Iowa City.

Dates: 1914-2002

Ethel Roberta Douglass papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0169
Abstract

West Branch, Iowa, resident who graduated from the University of Iowa in 1921 with a B.A. in geology.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1919

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Everett E. Sterner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0009.009
Abstract

University of Iowa student, 1934-1940. Sterner documented UI cooperative dorms of this period. Photographs and notes.

Dates: 1931-1943

Faith Knowler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0206
Abstract

Johnson County community activist from the 1970s to 1990s.

Dates: 1936-1995

FlaGstone: A Publication of the FG Syndrome Family Alliance newsletters

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0610
Abstract

The newsletter of the FG Syndrome Family Alliance, edited by two Iowa City women whose sons have FG syndrome.

Dates: 1998-2006

Floy Eugenia Whitehead papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0037
Abstract

Nutrition scholar and chair of the University of Iowa's Home Economics Department for sixteen years.

Dates: 1935-1998

Four Seasons Garden Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0877
Abstract

This collection contains meeting minutes, annual reports, and scrapbooks of club activities.

Dates: 1970-2010

Fox Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0449
Abstract

Dr. Walter Fox was a physician who served in France during WWI and later died in Serbia while working for the Italian Red Cross. Helen Fox Angell was a Red Cross worker during WWII and later in the Panama Canal Zone. Primarily photographs, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1880-1966; Majority of material found within 1918-1947

Frances Hawthorne papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0473
Abstract

Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.

Dates: 1906-2000

Francoise Martinet papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0719
Abstract

Ballerina and professor of dance at the University of Iowa from 1978-1997.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1978-1998

Fred Schwengel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0456
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the papers of Iowa Representative Fred Schwengel.

Dates: 1940-1993; Majority of material found within 1960-1979

Frederick W. Kent Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG30.0001.001
Scope and Contents The Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs is comprised of about 50,000 prints and negatives. The collection relates to most areas of the University of Iowa, including individuals, departments, and buildings, and it visually documents nearly every decade of University life since classes commenced in 1855. The majority of the images are dated between 1880 and 1980. In addition to University images, the collection includes approximately 2,000 images of commercial and residential structures off-campus in Iowa City, Iowa.Note: The following inventory lists, where available, categories under which prints and negatives in the Frederick W. Kent Collection may be found. The number of prints or negatives in each category will range from as few as one to as many as 100 or more. For two sub-series - Faculty and Staff, and Students - there are no categories; in each case, individual items are arranged alphabetically by name. For the Theatre sub-series, photographs are arranged...
Dates: 1866-2000; Majority of material found within 1880-1980

Frederick Wezeman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0123
Abstract

Founding director of the University of Iowa School of Library Science (later renamed School of Library and Information Science).

Dates: 1947 - 1973

Geneva Southall papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0380
Abstract

Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies and Music at the University of Minnesota; University of Iowa alumna.

Dates: 1960-2004

Genevieve Buess Taylor papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0099
Abstract

Adoption records from The Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City, Missouri regarding the 1924 adoption of Oren Jay Taylor. Also included is a 1916 school paper on equal suffrage by Dorothy Mills.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1916-1997

George Henry Yewell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0041
Abstract

Artist. Correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1847-1919