| Date Span: | 1980 |
| Creator: | Giddings, Marie (1908-) |
| Extent: | 1.00 linear inch. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0426 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Detailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century. |
Marie Harris Giddings, teacher and family historian, was born in 1908 in Illinois. She grew up on a farm in north central Iowa, graduating from high school in 1926. She then attended Teacher's College, now University of Northern Iowa, and taught in rural schools until her marriage in 1934. She and her husband moved to California in 1944 where she resumed teaching. Giddings decided to write a history of her parent's family in 1964 and dedicated herself to its completion after the death of her brother in 1980.
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has not been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 622) were donated by Joyce Rigby in 1999.
Preferred Citation: Marie Giddings 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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