Date Span: | 1905-1999 |
Creator: | Perkins, Jesse Virginia Antrim (1893-) |
Extent: | .50 linear inches. |
Collection Number: | IWA0445 |
Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
Summary: | Rural elementary school teacher and farm wife whose papers consist of three partial journals. |
Alternate Extent Statement: Photographs in folder 1.
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright held by the donor has not been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 651) were donated by Virginia Alice Miller in 1999.
Preferred Citation: Jesse Antrim Perkins 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 |
Jesse Virginia Antrim Perkins was born February 2, 1893 to Lola Hay Antrim and John Harvey Antrim. She was the youngest of three sisters and one brother. After graduating from high school, Perkins attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and then the University of Nebraska. Her father died while she was in college, and after graduation she moved back to Iowa to teach at a rural grade school and be near her mother. She married a farmer, Albert Leonard Perkins, and had four daughters, Dorothy Esther, Virginia Alice, and twins Patricia Susan and Elizabeth Lulu.
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Series 1: JOURNALS
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