Hilda Ellyson Allen papers
The papers consist largely of correspondence between Hilda and George Allen and their three children and cover a broad range of family, social and political issues.
Repository: Iowa Women's Archives
Athens History Circle (Iowa City, Iowa) records
Iowa City study club organized in 1897.
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Sarah Braunwarth papers
Medical school notebooks and clinical records of a physician who practiced in Muscatine, Iowa, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Lela Powers Briggs papers
An artist who farmed with her husband near La Porte, Iowa.
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Cheryl Britton papers
Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.
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Leona Call papers
Professor of Greek at the State University of Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Cary Club of Marion, Iowa records
Women's study club founded in 1878 in Marion, Iowa.
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Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Diarist, mother, and minister's wife.
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The Clionian Club (Davenport, Iowa) records
Women's study group which originated in 1874.
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Jennifer Riggs Cosson papers
A known suffragist who was active in community and political circles in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Millicent Mary Cuplin papers
Mathematics teacher at East High School in Des Moines who started the school's first ball team.
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Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records
Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.
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Sarah Poppen De Koster papers
Family correspondence received by a pastor's wife during the early twentieth century.
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Des Moines Women's Club records
Civic and philanthropic organization.
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Rose Ettinger papers
Concert singer who toured Europe from 1897 to 1907.
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Almira Ames Farnham memoir
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
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May Bennett Harshbarger papers
Schoolteacher from eastern Carroll County, Iowa who managed the family farm after her husband's death in 1926.
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Bertha Hedges papers
A talented seamstress and milliner, Bertha Gotter Hedges was born in Greene County, Iowa, in 1887.
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Hedy Hustedde papers
Homemaker and librarian who lived abroad in Berlin for four years during the 1980s.
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Gwendolyn Johnson Hein papers
Farmwoman, basketball player on Newhall High School girls state championship team in 1927.
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Edna Hidlebaugh papers
Prominent Bayard, Iowa clubwoman who helped found the local library.
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Ida Bandfield Holden papers
Schoolteacher in the Waterloo area at the turn of the century.
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Gladys Homan papers
Extensive correspondence of Corning, Iowa farm wife and club woman.
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Jessie Hornsby papers
French professor at the University of Iowa who was born in Algiers, North Africa, and worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in England as an intelligence assistant during World War II.
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Frances Barnes Ingram papers
Monroe County, Iowa native.
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Alice Kelley papers
University of Iowa graduate who worked as a secretary. The papers mainly consist of the diaries she kept from 1926-2002.
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Alberta Metcalf Kelly papers
High school English teacher who was active in state and national Democratic Party politics during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Maria Margaretha Kromminga papers
Diaries of a Monticello, Iowa, native who lived on her parents' farm and never married, raising her son alone.
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Josephine M. Kuba papers
Volunteer whose work centered on her involvement in the Woman's Relief Corps.
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Helen Larson papers
Anamosa and Iowa City resident who worked for the The University of Iowa Hospital.
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Bernice Leary papers
Educator, author, collector of children's books.
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Alberta Evelyn Swan Lehman papers
Correspondence and scrapbook of student years at Simpson Conservatory in Indianola, Iowa.
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Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
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Luella Rynerson Smith papers
Home extension course, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other early twentieth century rural organization publications collected by an Iowa farm wife.
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Marjorie Elizabeth Lyford papers
Public health and visiting nurse who later taught at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
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Pauline Lyon papers
Waterloo, Iowa, native who served in WAVES during World War II and later worked for the American Red Cross.
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Manuel and David Macias papers
Brothers who emigrated to Bettendorf, Iowa, from Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1914 and 1915.
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Marion Federation of Women's Clubs records
Organization of Marion women's clubs.
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Kate Martinson papers
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
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McGill Family papers
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.
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Bettie McKenzie papers
Community activist from Red Oak, Iowa.
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Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
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Phoebe Kellum Mericle obituary
Early settler in Webster County, Iowa.
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Marianne Michael papers
Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.
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Noble Photograph collection
Postcards and photographs of Iowa includes the work of professional women photographers in Iowa.
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Prentiss Family papers
The family came to Iowa City in 1905 when Henry Prentiss established the Anatomy Department at the State University of Iowa.
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Proteus Club (Des Moines) records
Women's study club organized in 1896 by college graduates for their intellectual improvement.
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Iowa Byington Reed papers
The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.
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Mae Atkinson Robinson papers
Correspondence and diaries of an Iowa farm woman.
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Abbie Romey papers
Actress, homemaker, and 1928 graduate of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
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Marie Rumble papers
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
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Almira Safely Rutledge papers
Early, Iowa, wife and mother.
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Clara Steen Skott papers
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
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Verna Moulton Spencer papers
Maquoketa, Iowa, native who owned and operated Spencer's Harmony Hall with her husband from 1912 to 1962.
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Stong Family papers
Correspondence of Alice Stong details her undergraduate experiences at The University of Iowa.
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Alma Erickson Swanson papers
Swedish farm woman whose three children became academics during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Augusta Gustafson Swanson correspondence
Swedish immigrant who moved to Iowa in 1889. (In Swedish with English translations.)
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Swope and DeLand Families papers
Family papers and subject files concerning women artists, women writers, and peace activism in Northwest Iowa.
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Sarah C. Taylor papers
Papers, 1881-1907.13 items. Physician who ran the Taylor Sanitarium in Hamburg, Iowa for two decades around the turn of the century.
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Theristrai Club (Marion, Iowa) records
Marion, Iowa, study club that was founded in 1867.
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Vina Thorpe papers
Des Moines newspaper columnist and editor who ran Thorpe Publications with her husband.
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Josie Thurston papers
Journalist who worked for the Des Moines Register between 1947 and 1957 and was later a freelance writer.
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Trimble Family papers
Reminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith and Marie Jeffers about their mother, Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood.
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University of Iowa College of Nursing records
The history of nursing education at Iowa.
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Van Zante and De Cook Families papers
Late 19th century diary of adolescent Dutch-American farm girl and 1932 farm diary of her daughter-in-law.
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Myrle Olive Ward papers
Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.
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Welch and Angrick Collection
Material relating to the Heart of Hawkeye Council of Campfire Girls, The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Iowa Department of the Woman's Relief Corps.
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Marta Werner papers
Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
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YWCA of Greater Des Moines records
The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.
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