Scholar, writer and artist.

Audiovisual educator and professor in the Education Department at the University of Iowa.

Served for over twenty years in the Iowa judiciary and was the first woman to be appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Public servant, feminist activist, and poet from Davenport, Iowa.

Scholar and translator whose work focused on Haitian intellectual Jean Price-Mars.

Dancer, choreographer and educator who worked in Iowa, Massachussetts, Oregon and New York.

Research material compiled by Meade while writing the biography Buster Keaton Cut to the Case.

Jewish independent filmmaker raised in Des Moines, Iowa.

Award-winning actress of the stage and screen from Marshalltown, Iowa, who made her film debut in Woody Allen's Interior's.

Democrat who served four terms in the Iowa House and one four-year term in the Senate (1986-1998).

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.

Ohio born psychometrist who divorced in 1957 and moved to Iowa City with her daughters.

Materials in this collection document the professional activities of Mary Patricia Donahue, nursing educator and scholar. Donahue’s research, scholarship, and teaching primarily focused on Nursing Education and History as well as Ethics and Philosophy within the nursing profession. Materials span from 1872 to 2014 and comprise biographical information, course outlines, published research papers, research materials, administrative files, photographs, and recorded lectures.

Davenport area community activist and leader in its Mexican American community.

Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.

Educator, author, and columnist. Speeches, newspaper columns, and articles about education. Also includes sound recordings, video tapes, and filmstrips.

Northwest Iowa family including Robert McCown, head of the University of Iowa Libraries Department of Special Collections from 1986-1997.

Costume designer and avid traveler whose papers include an extensive collection of slides, related travel diaries, and materials pertaining to the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Davenport family that emigrated from Mexico in the 1910s.

Mona Martin (1934- ) served in the Iowa House of Representatives from Scott County from 1993-2001.