wa00015. Rural Women
Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (founding chapter) records
An organization advocating the prevention of farm-related childhood injuries, health risks and fatalities.
Almira Ames Farnham papers
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.
Grace Ferns papers
Memoir and oral history transcript of a rural Iowa school teacher.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Cassie Thompson Ford papers
Homemaker who farmed with her husband near Central City, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Franklin Township Farm Bureau Women (O'Brien County) records
Freedom Township Women's Club (Palo Alto County) records
Social club founded in 1923. Presentations were given on food preservation, nutrition, sewing, and tailoring.
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.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Friendly Neighbors Club (Percival, Iowa) records
Social club organized in April 1935 by farm wives living southeast of Percival, Iowa.
Dallner and Petersen Family papers
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.
Daughters of Ceres (Walnut and Webster, Iowa) records
Walnut and Webster chapter records of this social and benevolent club comprised of farmwomen.
Minnie Ducommun papers
Diary and obituary of a rural Iowa housewife.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Madge Clark Girard papers
Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Greene Township Women's Club (Iowa County, Iowa) records
Social club of Iowa County farmwomen that began as a Farm Bureau club but later dropped that affiliation.
Esther Mae Christensen Grow memoir
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.
Josephine Gruhn papers
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.
Mary Hagen memoir
Memoir describing life on a family farm near Manly, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Helen Harrington papers
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.
May Bennett Harshbarger papers
Schoolteacher from eastern Carroll County, Iowa who managed the family farm after her husband's death in 1926.
Hartupee Social Club records
Social club organized in 1930 by rural women living near West Liberty, Iowa.