Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.

Interviews with members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sioux City, Iowa.

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.

Graduate of Ministry at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where she was the first Unitarian Universalist student.

Diarist, mother, and minister's wife.

Ecumenical organization.

Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.

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.

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.

Records of the women’s organization activities associated with the Agudas Achim Congregation in Iowa City. Included are administrative materials, financial records, correspondence, event and program materials, materials related to affiliated organizations, and resources on Judaism.

Landscape architect, bookbinder, creative writer, and Iowa Quaker history researcher and author.

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

Methodist Missionary in the Changchao District of Northern China who graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1917. The collection materials include clippings about her family, an autobiography titled Under Marching Orders in North China, biographical sketches, photographs of missionary trips in Northern China, and postcards.