wa00015. Rural Women
Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
Della Marie Koppenhaver papers
Two reminiscences of an Iowa woman detailing farm life in the 1920s.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Emmylou Krohn papers
Teacher, columnist, and textbook author from Council Bluffs area.
Maria Kromminga papers
Diaries of a Monticello, Iowa, native who lived on her parents' farm and never married, raising her son alone.
Carrie Lindahl papers
Rural Linn County banker who worked outside of the home from 1910s to 1960s.
Elizabeth Fagan Lynch memoir
Teacher and farmer of Irish descent from Dubuque County, Iowa whose memoir is called, A Trunk and its Chips.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Mahaska County Farm Bureau Women's Committee records
Women's division of the local Farm Bureau.
Arrangement
4 folders, shelved in SCVF.
Kate Martinson papers
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Mary Sears McHenry papers
Diary and account book of the bride of a Civil War officer.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Amelia McNeill papers
Farm woman who served as secretary of Monona Co. Rural Electrification Association for more than 20 years.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Phoebe Kellum Mericle papers
Early settler in Webster County, Iowa.
Arrangement
One item, shelved in SCVF.
Ruth Perkins Messenger Papers
Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Ruby Crumley Mitchell diaries
Daily diaries of this Rhodes, Iowa, native.
Florinda Wakefield More papers
Correspondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.
Barbara Fassbinder papers
Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.
Mary Bywater Cross papers
A quilt historian and genealogist who collected the papers of several generations of her family’s history in Iowa.
The Maid Narratives: Oral Histories from the Great Migration to Iowa
Oral history interviews with African American women who worked in domestic service in the South before moving to Iowa.
Charlotte Faxon papers
Teacher who traveled widely during the Civil War period.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.