The University of Iowa Libraries

Delvena Anderson worked as a library staff member for the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) from 1911 to 1957. During a portion of that time she was a secretary to the Director of Libraries.

The Delvena Anderson diary is dated July 1958. The short, typed travel diary details Anderson's trip from Iowa City through Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine to the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton Island. The diary includes numerous historical details about the areas in which Anderson traveled as well as her own personal experiences on the trip.

Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Access: The papers are open for research.

Use: Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.

Acquisition: The diary (donor no. 161) was donated by Dale M. Bentz, former director of the University of Iowa libraries, in 1993.

Preferred Citation: Delvena Anderson papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

Repository:	Iowa Women's Archives
Address:	100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:	319-335-5068
Curator:	Kären Mason
Email:	lib-women@uiowa.edu
Website:	http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa

This collection is indexed under the following subject terms.

Personal Names:
Anderson, Delvena, 1887-1973

Corporate Names:
State University of Iowa
University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives

Dates:
1950-1959

Topics:
Voyages and travels
Women

Occupations:
Secretaries
Library employees

Geographic Names:
Iowa City (Iowa)
Canada, Eastern
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachussetts
Maine
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia