Alphabetical List of Collections: I-J
- INGELS, CAROLINE (1914- )
Papers, 1937-1999. 1 linear inch.
- Farm woman and volunteer from Fayette County, Iowa.
INGLESIDE CLUB
Records, 1993-1995. 1.25 linear inches.- Program on feminism discussed by this book club in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
INGRAM, FRANCES BARNES (1879-1950)
Papers, 1898-1996. 2.5 linear inches. - Monroe County, Iowa native.
IOWA CITIZENS' LEAGUE FOR NURSING
Records, 1970-1975. 5 linear inches.- Organization that promotes standardized education and continuing education programs for nurses.
IOWA CITY AREA CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S CLUB
Records, 1967-2003. 1.25 linear feet.
IOWA CITY WOMEN'S PRESS
Records, 1973-1985. 2.25 linear feet.- Iowa City publisher and printer of lesbian and feminist books that existed from 1973 to 1985.
IOWA COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE
Records, 1979-2000. 3 linear feet.
IOWA COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Records, 1984-2003. 10 linear inches.- The Write Women Back into History essays of middle and high school students in Iowa.
IOWA CORNETS
Records, 1978-1997 and undated. 1.5 linear inches.- Professional women's basketball team that played in the Women's Basketball League from 1978-1980.
IOWA E.R.A. COALITION
Records, 1916, 1972-1980 (bulk 1978-1980). 5.5 linear feet.- Organization to promote passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
IOWA FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS
Collection, 1929-2005. 1 linear inch.- Pamphlet (1929) concerning the Iowa Federation Home established in Iowa City in 1919 to house African American women students at the University of Iowa; research about the Home by Richard Breaux; and histories and convention booklets of the IFCWC's successor, the Iowa Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
IOWA FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS (Shenandoah, Iowa)
Scrapbook, 1970-1988. 2 linear inches.- Organization founded in 1922 with the goal of supporting women's rights in business.
IOWA LEAGUE FOR NURSING
Recors, 1952-2002. 5.5 linear feet and audiovisual materials.
IOWA NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
See: National Organization for Women, Iowa.
IOWA NURSES ASSOCIATION
Records, 1904-1989. 83 linear feet.- Organization to promote standardized nursing education, better working conditions and to improve the status of nurses.
IOWA NURSES ASSOCIATION FIFTH DISTRICT
Records, 1922-2000. 2.25 linear feet. - Local chapter of the Iowa Nurses Association.
IOWA PEACE LINKS
Records, 1985, 2 linear inches.- Newsletters of pacifist group Peace Links, based in the Northwest Iowa towns of Paullina and Primghar.
IOWA PORKETTES (1964-1994)
Records, 19.2 linear feet.- Women’s auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Producer’s Association, founded in 1964. Merged with the men’s organization in 1992.
IOWA PRESS WOMEN
Records, 1933-2001. 4 linear feet. - Local affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women.
IOWA RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE NEWS
Records, 1960-1978, 1.1 linear feet.- News Magazine of rural electric cooperatives serving Iowa and surrounding states.
IOWA SUFFRAGE MEMORIAL COMMISSION
Records, 1906-1941. 3 linear inches. - Commemorated the efforts of pioneer suffragists and the enfranchisement of women.
IOWA WOMAN ENDEAVORS, INC.
Records, 1979-1995. 7.2 linear feet. - Literary magazine founded in 1979 to promote the artistic works and opinions of women in the Midwest.
IOWA WOMEN AGAINST THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Records, 1972-1980. 2 linear inches.- Grassroots organization opposed to Iowa's ratification of the ERA to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
IOWA WOMEN ARTISTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Oral histories and transcripts.- Collection of 77 oral histories of Iowa women artists conducted by Jane Robinette in 1998-1999.
IOWA WOMEN IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP.
Records, 1981-1997. 1.25 linear feet.- An organization to promote the upward mobility of women in educational management.
IOWA WOMEN IN NATURAL RESOURCES
Records, 1987-2007. 7.5 linear inches. - Iowa chapter of the national organization.
IOWA WOMEN'S EQUALITY CAMPAIGN
Records, 1975-1992. 2.5 linear inches.- The organization formed in 1992 to work for passage of the state ERA in Iowa.
IOWA WOMEN’S FOUNDATION
Records, 1990-2003. 10 linear inches.- Women's organization to fund and assist programs that create opportunities for women and girls in Iowa.
IOWA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME
Records, 1975- . 2 linear feet. - Established by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women in 1975 to recognize the contributions of Iowa women.
IOWA WOMEN JUDGES PROJECT
Papers, 1997-2000. 2 linear inches.- Oral history interviews with the "pioneers" of Iowa's women jurists.
IOWA WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS
Records, 1972-1999. 13 linear feet.- Organization to promote the advancement of women in politics.
IRWIN, CONSTANCE FRICK (1913-1995)
Papers, 1918-1995. 12 linear feet. - Author, librarian, and professor of library science who was a WAVE during World War II.
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- JACK, JILL (1957- )
Papers, 1967-2006 (bulk 1975-1983). 5 linear inches.
Iowa City political activist.
JACKSON, MARILYN
Papers,1931-200. 5 linear inches.- Muscatine, Iowa, writer who taught writing to senior citizens.
JAMES, BARBARA
Oral history and associated papers.
- Des Moines, Iowa native, teacher, and University of Iowa alumna.
JEAN JEW JUSTICE COMMITTEE
Records, 1982-1999. 2.5 linear inches and artifact. - The committee organized in 1990 to support Jean Jew in her sexual harrassment lawsuit against the University of Iowa.
JENS, ARLENE (1926- )
Papers, 1962-2006. 1.25 linear feet.
JOHNSON COUNTY E.R.A. COALITION
Records, 1984-1993. 2.5 linear inches. - Organized in Iowa City to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution of the state of Iowa.
JOHNSON, EDITH EDMUND (1893-1980)
Papers, 1922-2005. 4 linear inches.- Longstanding member of Fairfield, Iowa clubs including the Fancy Work Circle and the Good Cheer Society.
JOHNSON FAMILY LETTERS (Cresco, Iowa)
Letters, 1903-1925. 1 linear inch.
JOHNSON, HELEN I.
Papers and oral history. 0.5 linear inches.- Native of Marshalltown, Iowa who was a department store manager, and active in the Baptist Church and community.
JOHNSON, LULU MERLE (1907-1995)
Papers, 1930-1995. 1 linear inch.- An African American woman from Gravity, Iowa, who earned an MA in 1930 and a PhD in1941 in American history from the State University of Iowa.
JOHNSON, MARGARET (1915- )
Papers, 1929-2001. 2 linear feet.- Farm woman, teacher, and recipient of the Master Farm Homemaker award in 1970.
JOHNSON, RUTH ASHTON (1933- )
Papers, 1971-1994 (bulk 1971-1978). 10 linear inches.- Physical education teacher whose papers include records of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and of the Association for Girls and Women in Sport.
JOHNSON, RUTH PITKANEN (1909-1992)
Papers, 1940s-1992 and undated. 5 linear inches.- Artist and educator from Finland who taught drawing theory at the University of Illinois.
JONES, GRACE MORRIS ALLEN (1876-1928)
Papers, 1927-1975 (bulk 1927-1928). 6 items (photocopies).- Burlington, Iowa born educator and wife of Dr. Laurence C. Jones, founder of Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi.
JONES, LEAH A. (1965- )
Papers, 1983-1997. 7 items.- Chicago native and graduate of the University of Iowa.
