Skip to main content

wa00015. Rural Women

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00015

Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:

Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (founding chapter) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0381
Abstract

An organization advocating the prevention of farm-related childhood injuries, health risks and fatalities.

Dates: 1990-1998

Almira Ames Farnham papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Abstract

Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1896

Grace Ferns papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0608
Abstract

Memoir and oral history transcript of a rural Iowa school teacher.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1987-2002

Cassie Thompson Ford papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0245
Abstract

Homemaker who farmed with her husband near Central City, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1937-1996

Franklin Township Farm Bureau Women (O'Brien County) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0713
Abstract

Farmwomen's club organized in 1956.

Dates: 1956-1993

Freedom Township Women's Club (Palo Alto County) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0383
Abstract

Social club founded in 1923. Presentations were given on food preservation, nutrition, sewing, and tailoring.

Dates: 1923-1998

Marie Giddings papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0426
Abstract

Detailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1980

Friendly Neighbors Club (Percival, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0178
Abstract

Social club organized in April 1935 by farm wives living southeast of Percival, Iowa.

Dates: 1935-2000

Dallner and Petersen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0484
Abstract

Peterson's journals describe daily life in rural Iowa from 1907 to 1910; Dallner's writings focus on two mysterious deaths that occurred in 1925.

Dates: 1907-2001

Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0113
Abstract

Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.

Dates: 1898-2016

Minnie Ducommun papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0553
Abstract

Diary and obituary of a rural Iowa housewife.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1936-1998

Madge Clark Girard papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract

Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1991

Greene Township Women's Club (Iowa County, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0412
Abstract

Social club of Iowa County farmwomen that began as a Farm Bureau club but later dropped that affiliation.

Dates: 1959-1996

Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0210
Abstract

Reflections on growing up in western Iowa and Nebraska include experiences in country school, college and as a teacher.



Arrangement

One folder shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1993

Josephine Gruhn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0382
Abstract

Britt, Iowa-born member of the Iowa House of Representatives and vice-chair of the Committee on Agriculture during the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Dates: 1982-1992

Mary Hagen memoir

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0531
Abstract

Memoir describing life on a family farm near Manly, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1996

Helen Harrington papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0476
Abstract

Poet and farm woman from Lamoni, Iowa.

Dates: 1963-1992

Harrison County Farm Bureau scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0620
Abstract

Part of the statewide, grass roots effort to provide agricultural and homemaking science to Iowa farmers in the second decade of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1974-1976

May Bennett Harshbarger papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0088
Abstract

Schoolteacher from eastern Carroll County, Iowa who managed the family farm after her husband's death in 1926.

Dates: 1898-1993

Hartupee Social Club records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0621
Abstract

Social club organized in 1930 by rural women living near West Liberty, Iowa.

Dates: 1930-1995