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wa00017. Women and Religion

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00017
Papers and records of religious organizations, missionaries, clergy, women religious and other women whose spirituality was central to their work.

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Esther Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1292
Abstract

Missionary nurse and midwife to Zorzor, Liberia from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1936-1994

Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Iowa records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0751
Abstract

Organization dedicated to legislative and educational efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency and support woman's suffrage.

Dates: 1874-2006

Martha Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0235
Abstract

Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.

Dates: 1939-2000

YWCA of Washington, Iowa records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1424
Abstract

Materials in this collection document the activities of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Washington, Iowa. The association’s items as well as its subsequent clubs date from 1925-1995 and include reports, programs, meeting minutes, official rules, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, slides, and photographs.

Dates: 1925 - 1995

Kittredge Cherry and Audrey Lockwood papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0759
Abstract

Life partners Kittredge Cherry (1957-), an author, journalist, and minister to the LGBT community, and Audrey Lockwood (1957- ), a financial planner, met as students at the University of Iowa in 1975 and lived and worked in Japan before settling in California.

Dates: 1970-2009