| Date Span: | 1921-1956 |
| Creator: | Brant, Alice Sophia (1882-1956) |
| Extent: | 6.00 linear inches. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0170 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Diaries of this homemaker and mother who helped manage the family's funeral home in Oelwein. |
Alice Sophia Brant was born in 1882 to Edward Oren and Ida Josephine Paine. She later married Herb Brant and had seven children: Morris, Russell, Naomi, Randall, Lucile, Grace, and Gordon. Brant and her family kept a daily log of activities during their quarantine for smallpox in 1921. Brant kept diaries of daily activities and events over a twenty-five year span (1932-1956), during which time she kept house, raised her children, and assisted her husband with his management of a funeral home on Oelwein, Iowa. She died in Rochester, Minnesota in 1956.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 245) were donated by Grace I. Spindler, Brant's daughter, in 1994.
Preferred Citation: Alice Sophia Brant 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 |
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Series 1: Diaries
Series 2: Family information
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