Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.

Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

The papers consist primarily of her self-published writings, reflections, and poetry about her work at the Arizona State prison and on the Mexican border.

Letters From Egypt by Helen Baird Branyan consists primarily of Clarice Bloomfield's letters, written between 1920 and 1938. The letters describe the life of an Albia, Iowa, girl who became a missionary in Egypt.

Mexican American activist and nurse who advocated for the rights of migrant workers and Latino families in Iowa.

Unitarian Universalist minister and daughter of Iowa State Senator Vera Shivvers.

Lutheran Seminary in Dubuque which began admitting women in 1970.

Papers of Iowa missionary serving in Japan from 1950-1982.

Artist, librarian, and student of Corita Kent.

Nurse who served as a missionary and cared for patients with leprosy in Nigeria from 1948-1971.

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Iowa City native who was the organist at St. Wenceslaus Church for sixty-five years, retiring at the age of 81.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.

This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Elementary schoolteacher and substitute teacher; active in PFLAG and groups promoting LGBTQ inclusion within the Lutheran Church.

The Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club holds Friendship Bible Coffees and monthly luncheons. The ICCW formed in 1967 as an offshoot of Stonecroft Ministries.

Franciscan nun sentanced to six months in federal prison for trespassing at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.

Correspondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.

A medical missionary from West Liberty who worked in China in the early 1900s.