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wa00004/wa00004.1. Diaries

 Record Group Term
Identifier: wa00004/wa00004.1

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

Marianne Michael papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0453
Abstract

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

Dates: 1897-2005

Ruby Crumley Mitchell diaries

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0228
Abstract

Daily diaries of this Rhodes, Iowa, native.

Dates: 1904-1966

Maranda Cline Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1320
Abstract

Consists of a transcribed diary that includes daily entries describing family life near Hills, Iowa from 1891 to 1907.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1891 - 1907

Mabel E. Dixon papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1111
Abstract

Travel diary of Mable E. Dixon concerning her time in France.

Dates: 1927

Jessie M. Buthmann Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1156
Abstract

Diaries and school papers of a rural school teacher and farm wife.

Dates: 1908-1982

Vera Holzhauer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1165
Abstract

Diaries and account books of a homemaker and Sunday school teacher from Muscatine, Iowa from 1915 to 1959.

Dates: 1915-2000

Adele Fuchs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1174
Abstract

German-American doctor, teacher, and suffragette who lived in Sioux City and Des Moines from 1879 to the late 1930s.

Dates: 1884-1990

Caroline Louise Hopwood Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1196
Abstract

A farm wife from the Oxford, Iowa area whose diaries record everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1883-1912

Mary Bywater Cross papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1223
Abstract

A quilt historian and genealogist who collected the papers of several generations of her family’s history in Iowa.

Dates: 1819-2016

Lois Thor papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1259
Abstract

Iowa State University student and braille typist originally from Clinton, Iowa.

Dates: 1909-2002

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Hilda Ellyson Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0371
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1884-1958

Delvena Anderson papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0100
Abstract

Diary of a trip from Iowa City through eastern Canada.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: Existence: 1958

Lenora Backes papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0010
Abstract

Diaries of an Iowa farm woman.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1944-1946

Ruth Salzmann Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract

Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.

Dates: 1858-2012

Helena Jongewaard McDonald papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0390
Abstract

Teacher who attended Iowa State College in 1914.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1913-1952

Ellen Mowrer Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0298
Abstract

Correspondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.

Dates: 1856-1994

Off and Holsteen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0306
Abstract

Two generations of an eastern Iowa family, many generations of which attended the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1864-1970

Jesse Virginia Antrim Perkins papers

 Collection — Folder 1: Series 1
Identifier: IWA0445
Abstract

Rural elementary school teacher and farm wife whose papers consist of three partial journals.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1905-1999

Thelma Petersen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0567
Abstract

Diaries of homemaker from Kirkman, Iowa.

Dates: 1926-2003