Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history
Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.
Repository: Iowa Women's Archives
Venise T. Berry papers
Novelist and associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa.
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Nellie Bishop oral history
Buchanan County, Iowa, native who farmed with her husband.
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Nancy De Vries Blom papers
Dutch immigrant who came to the United States in 1915 as a young child and lived on a farm in northwest Iowa.
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Betty Boller oral history
Des Moines wife and mother who worked as a secretary during World War II.
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Ruth Bonfiglio papers
Member of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City, Iowa.
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Marlene Booth Papers
Jewish independent filmmaker raised in Des Moines, Iowa.
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June Lundy Boyd papers
Memoir describes growing up and teaching in southwestern Iowa, Lundy's wartime wedding and subsequent life in Knoxville, Iowa.
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Rosalie Braverman papers
Braverman recalls her childhood in Youthful Journeys in Poland and Germany. An oral history interview, conducted in 1996, concerns student family life, the Jewish community in Iowa City, and anti-Semitism.
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Ada Mae Brown Brinton memoir
In Sunshine and Rain in Iowa: Reminiscing through 86 Years, Brinton reflects on rural Iowa, hard work, church traditions, and the love of family and community.
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Irene Coleman Buckley memoir
A Handful of Rain: The Life of Irene Buckley, describes her life as a teacher, wife, mother, librarian, and volunteer.
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Margaret Strang Corothers memoir
Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.
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Beverly Barnes Fix Papers
Television and radio broadcaster, producer and writer who worked in Iowa and Hollywood in the 1940s.
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Marie Giddings papers
Detailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.
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Blanche Basye Gilmore papers
Memoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.
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Madge Girard papers
Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.
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Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa
Oral history project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
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Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.
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Harrison County Farm Bureau scrapbook
Part of the statewide, grass roots effort to provide agricultural and homemaking science to Iowa farmers in the second decade of the twentieth century.
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Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women
Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.
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Histories of Rural Iowa Women's Clubs
Rural women participated in a great number and variety of clubs. This collection has short histories of a variety of clubs formed in Iowa in the first part of the 20th century.
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Mary Ankeny Hunter memoir
Secretary, vice-president, and then president of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission in the 1920s and 1930s. Hunter was a peace activist, prohibitionist, and Red Cross worker during World War I.
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Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project
Oral histories and transcripts. Collection of 77 oral histories of Iowa women artists conducted by Jane Robinette in 1998-1999.
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Joy Neal Kidney newspaper articles
Freelance writer from West Des Moines, Iowa.
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Alice Kipp papers
The papers include Kipp's reminiscence of her childhood on an Iowa farm.
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Joy Smith Lewallen memoir
This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.
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Catherine Lewis papers
Interviews and field reports prepared by Lewis for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklore.
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Ina Loewenberg papers
Research materials for her book, The View From 70: Women's Recollections and Reflections, published in 2004.
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Lowell Club (Boone, Iowa) records
Study club founded in 1887.
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Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
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Mahaska County Farm Bureau Women's Committee records
The committee splintered from the extension service in 1955 and became the largest political and corporate organization representing farmer interests in Iowa.
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Marjorie Marsh papers
Fort Madison, Iowa, native, and active club member and volunteer.
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Alice McMurry papers
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
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Ruth Perkins Messenger memoir
Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.
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Winnifred Hiatt Scanlan papers
Memoir of growing up in Stockport, Iowa.
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Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papers
Autobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.
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Lois McIntyre Schutte papers
Two memoirs of an Iowa farm woman.
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Lucille Schwilck papers
1939 graduate from the State University of Iowa College of Law who worked for the U. S. Department of the Interior between 1943 and 1964.
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Velma Skott Teeple memoir
Childhood memories of an Eastern Iowa teacher, writer, and farmwoman.
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Ernella Van Horn papers
The second of four generations of women in her family to play basketball in Iowa.
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Jeanne Van Kley papers
Farmer's wife from Ocheydan, Iowa who raised four children.
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Bessie Wilkerson papers
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
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Eva Donelson Wilson papers
Native of Ogden, Iowa, and professor of nutrition at colleges in the United States and Brazil.
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Faye Wookey papers
Native of Red Oak, Iowa who who recalls family life on a farm in Montgomery County, Iowa.
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Lela Aurilla Yost memoir
Schoolteacher and farm wife near Mason City and Kesley, Iowa.
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