wa00004/wa00004.3. Oral Histories
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Nancy Seiberling papers
Environmental activist who co-founded Project GREEN, a city planning and beautification initiative in Iowa City.
Gusti Kollman papers
Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa
Madgetta Dungy papers
First Black woman to graduate from Cornell College and administrator at the University of Iowa whose dissertation focused on the experiences of African American graduate students.
Women:Hood Project records
Oral histories exploring personal experiences of femininity, and images of responsive artworks.
Angelica Lynn Rose Atalig oral history
Oral history, 1999. The narrator describes growing up in a bilingual, biracial family in Garner, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC) records
Women's center established in 1970 to serve the university and community.
McGill Family papers
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.
Ortha P. Neff papers
Red Cross staff member who was stationed in Okinawa and Hawaii during World War II.
Gladys Talcott Rife papers
Mt. Vernon, Iowa high school teacher who later owned and directed The Depot Museum in Fayette County, Iowa.
Esther Thornhill papers
Ida Grove, Iowa mother and homemaker who worked at a hatchery and at a hamburger shop before marrying.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Mary Louise Smith papers
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Marjorie Vandervelde papers
Photojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.
War Brides of World War II papers
1995 honors thesis of University of Iowa undergraduate student, Rachel Casteel.
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Women's History Project (Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa) interviews
Interviews with members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sioux City, Iowa.
Verda Williams papers
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Oral Histories of Iowa Policewomen
15 interviews and associated materials document the entry of women into Iowa's law enforcement agencies.
Inés García papers
Mexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.