Collection Topics

Raymond, Margaret Thomsen

Pownall, Dorothy Ashby

Rabenold, Jo

Sackett, Rosemary

Schmuecker, Hazelle Keir

American Business Women’s Association-Grant Wood Chapter

Business

Egenes, Joan Vander Naald

Iowa City Women’s Press

National Association of Women in Construction. Des Moines, Iowa Chapter

Reames, Ethel

Rees, Marian

Rogers, Effie Hoffman

Rutledge, Almira Safely

Spencer, Verna Moulton

Stewart, Zella White

Sutcliffe, Judith

Thorpe, Vina

Camp Fire Girls

Foster, Georgana Falb

Chautauqua performers

Romey, Abbie Anna

Child Care

Davis, Laura Hutchison

Dutson, Christine

National Organization for Women, Ames Chapter

National Organization for Women, Des Moines Chapter

Shaw, Elizabeth

Childhood and/or children

Grow, Esther Mae Christensen

Grant, Dorothy Sweet

Hill, Catherine Snedeker

Holt, Bertha Marion

Kessler, Dorothy Mae

LaSheck, Katharine

Lewis, Thelma

Longchamp, Sarah Alien

North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club

Raymond, Margaret Thompson

Stewart, Priscilla Ann Mabie

Wherry, Elizabeth

White, Lucy Van Voorhis

White, Maude Esther

City/county officials

Bridenstine, Jeanne

Burleson, Jane

Franklin, A. June (A Political Dialogue: Iowa’s Women Legislators)

Stoner, Mavis

Civil rights activists

Catalano, Tess

Cooper, Cecile

Davis, Aldeen

Chapman, Kathleen “Kay” Halloran

Companies

J. C. Penney Company

Comparable worth

Iowa Nurses Association

Conservationists

Muscatine Garden Club

Whitley, Cora Call

Democratic Party activists & legislators

Bridenstine, Jeanne

Collison, Margaret

Dick, Margaret

Franklin, A. June (A Political Dialogue: Iowa ‘s Women Legislators)

Gruhn, Josephine

Kelly, Alberta Metcalf

Lloyd-Jones, Jean

Mullen, Peg

Szymoniak, Elaine

Diarists

Cowden, Ruth M. Roland

Holden, Ida “Belle” Bandfield

Hansen , Lorraine Rogers

Harris, Claudine

Herr, Catharine

Hill, Willow

Martinson, Kate Emerson

Means, Edna

Miller, Ellen Mowrer

Mitchell, Ruby Crumley

Nash, Martha Ann

Place, Dorothy Sprout

Prentiss Family

Romey, Abbie Anna

Ronk, Lillian

Rutledge, Almira Safely

White, Lucy Van Voorhis

Discrimination, gender

Dental Hygiene Program, University of Iowa

Henry, Phylliss

National Organization for Women, Ames Chapter

Johnson, Ruth

Kern, Jean

National Organization for Women, Dubuque Chapter

National Organization for Women, Iowa

National Organization for Women, Johnson County-Iowa City Chapter

Rabenold, Jo

Rollenhagen, Erin

Scharnau, Ruth

Spencer, Lonabelle Kaplan

Disease and illness

Andre, Hazel Beck

Brant, Alice Sophia (smallpox)

Filipowska, Patricia (cancer)

Goldman, Louise (cancer)

Greene, Archie (spinal-cerebellar degeneration)

Hauth, Mary Ungerer

Klemesrud, Judy (cancer)

Mays, A. Louise (stroke)

Ward, Myrle Olive (leukemia)

Wood, Mary Elizabeth (near-death experience)

Divorce

Grant, Dorothy

Klemesrud, Judy

Martinson, Kate Emerson

Nissen Family

Platt, Elvira Gaston

Rutledge, Almira Safely

Stirlen, Edythe

Doderer, Minnette[boxes 2,22,29]

Domestic violence

Grant, Dorothy S.

Hall, Arlene Gardner

Domestic workers

Bolden, Louise

Education, gender bias in

National Organization for Women, Dubuque Chapter

Benson, Mildred Wirt

Iowa Nurses Association

Seasoned Citizens in Muscatine, Iowa

Equal Rights Amendment

See: Women, Politics and the Law

Family papers

Farm Women

See: Rural and Farm Women

Federal Officials

Fowler, Gwendolyn

Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman

Ingleside Club

Kern, Jean

Klemesrud, Judy

National Organization for Women, Ames Chapter

Lomas, Anna Cochrane

Muhanji, Cherry

National Organization for Women, Iowa

Norman Susan

Noun, Louise Rabenold, Jo

Rollenhagen, Erin

Flora Garden Club of Manchester

Gardening

Harshbarger, Gretchen

Muscatine Garden Club

Muscatine Herb Pals

Geology

Douglass, Ethel Roberta

Cameron, Cornelia

Wescott, Lois

Homesteaders

Ettleman, Margaret Bobbitt Everett, Mildred Fox

Swanson, Augusta Gustafson

Humor

Imogene Hub

Immigrants

Braverman, Rosalie

Gangstad, Rosa Knutson

Landhuis, Kim S

criabine, Helene

See: Latinas and their Families

International collections

Inventors

Guthrie-Cooper, Artine Allen

Myers, Virgina Slemmons, Ida Louise Grillet

Stoesser, Sylvia Goergen

Wahl, Martha Stoessel

Jazz

Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials

Nash, Martha Ann

Journalists and columnists

Benson, Mildred Wirt

Berry, Venise

Blake, Debra

Clark, Betty Jean

Clark, Mary G

Collins, Wilma Belden

Danbom, Rowene Byers

Davis, Aldeen

Kesler, Eliza Roby Hickok

Iowa Press Women, Inc.

Iowa Woman Endeavors

Irwin, Constance Frick Keasling, Veronica [editor,THE IMOGENE HUB]

Pownall, Dorothy Ashby

Professional Women’s League

Pullen, Jo Hiron

Reed, Sue

Rife, Gladys Talcott

Rogers, Effie Hoffman

Zwart, Elizabeth Clarkson

Latinas

See: Latinas and their Families

Legislators

Bock, Lena Belle

Carpenter, Dorothy

Chapman, Kathleen “Kay” Halloran

Political Dialogue: Iowa’s Women Legislators

See: Collections pertaining to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons and LGBT Issues

Zimmerman, Jo Ann

Lesbians and gays

Librarians

Bonney, Margaret Atherton

Newsome, Louane L. Tangen, May

Walls, Esther J.

Her Own Story: oral histories

Mayors

Harvat, Emma J.

Levin, Myrtilla F.

Lewis, Thelma

Memoirs

See: Autobiographical resources

Ferguson, Galdys Miller

Blom, Nancy DeVries Gerbers, Nellie Castor

Missionaries

Farquhar, Marian

Lane, Ortha

Michael, Marianne

Nineteenth Century Collections

See: Nineteenth Century Collections

Nursing

See: Nurses and Nursing Education

Oral Histories

See: Autobiographical resources

Bishop, Nellie

Braverman, Rosalie

Davis, Laura

Gernes, Elizabeth Griggs, Maxine & Creola

Hamblin, Dora Jane

Lewis, Catherine

Martinet, Francoise

Mullen, Peg

Political Dialogue: Iowa’s Women Legislators

Thornhill, Esther

Williams, Catherine

Women’s History Project (Catholic Church, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa)

Photographers

Bamford, Helen

Hamblin, Dora Jane

Harshbarger, Gretchen Liffring-Zug, Jo

Noble Photograph Collection

Physicians

Lacy and Robinson Families Maresh, Marion

Poets

Pullen, Josephine Hirons

Randolph, Virginia

Raymond, Margaret Thoms

Williams, Verda

Wood, Mary Elizabeth

Policewomen

Coffin, Barbara

Godwin, Trula

Henry, Phylliss

Oral Histories of Iowa Policewomen

Politics

A Political Dialogue: Iowa’s Women Legislators

Conlin, Roxanne Barton Dick, Margaret

Egenes, Joan Vander Naald

Donovan, Vergene

Goldman, Louise

Hamilton, Ruth

Harvat, Emma J

Kelly, Alberta Metcalf

Knowler, Faith

Lambie, Candace Packard

League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Des Moines

League of Women Voters of Mt. Vernon, Iowa

Pardun, Patricia Pendray, Carolyn

Zimmerman, Jo Ann

Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard

Racism

Cooper, Cecile

Cothorn, Marguerite

Eichacker, Lois

Women Against Racism Committee

Morris, Arlene Roberts

Wood, Mary Elizabeth You Can’t Go Back to Buxton

Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials

Radio and television broadcasters

Atkinson, Edith

Clark, Betty Jean

Driftmier, Leanna

Huth, Rose Claire Knowler, Faith

Odell, Mary Jane

Rouse, Mary

Stirlen, Edythe

Rape laws

Church Women United in Iowa

Religion

Carson, Marion

Dutson, Christine

Goldman, Louise Grant, Dorothy S.

Harris, Lileah

Nash, Martha

Platt, Elvira (abolitionist)

Sisters of St. Francis (Bancroft, Iowa)

Stirlen, Edythe

Urbany, Sister Mary Dominica

Ward, Myrle Olive

Women’s History Project

(Catholic Church, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa)

Wood, Mary Elizabeth

Reproductive rights

Des Moines Birthplace

Emma Goldman Clinic for Women (Iowa City, Iowa)

Iowa Midwives Association

Jens Arlene

National Abortion Rights Action League of Iowa

National Organization for Women, Dubuque Chapter

National Organization for Women, Iowa

National Organization for Women. Johnson County-Iowa City Chapter

Reproductive Rights Coalition of Iowa City

Shaw, Elizabeth Orr

Szymoniak, Elaine

Republican party activists; legislators

Cox, Louise S. [see Slemmons, ask staff]

Donovan, Vergene

Dryden, Muriel Anne

Egenes, Joan Vander Naal

Woolfe, Zelda Babcock

Rights of homemakers

Iowa National Organization for Women

Rural women

See: Rural and Farm Women

Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa

Scientists

Clark, Marion Jones

Fowler, Gwendolyn

Stoesser, Sylvia Goergen

Slavery

Harper, Virginia

Platt, Elvira Gaston

Social workers

Cothorn, Marguerite

Davis, Laura Hutchison

Eichacker, Lois H.

Spousal abuse/spousal legislation

Stalking legislation

State Board of Regents

Collison, Margaret

State officials

Jane Weiss Scholarship Committee

Odell, Mary Jane

Student life

Hughes, Doris, Bender

Iowa Federation Homes

Longchamp, Sarah Alien

Meyer, Marie Schultz

Mulnix, Ione

Shrauger Family

Spencer, Verna Moulton

Walls, Esther J.

Suffrage movement

See: Women’s Suffrage Movement

Teachers

See: Collections relating to Teachers

University of Iowa organizations and departments

Jean Jew Justice Committee

UI Council on the Status of Women

UI Department of Dental Hygiene

UI Department of Home Economics

UI Department of Physical Education for Women

Women Against Racism Committee

University librarians

Sheila Creth

University professors

Anderson, Ruth, Bluford

Bjurstrom Rural Music Collection

Volunteers

Spencer, Lonabelle Kaplan

Dickens, Mary

Donovan, Vergene

Dryden, Muriel Anne

Everett, Beverly George

Stuit, Velma

Werner, Marta

War effort

See: Women and War

Welfare/child welfare

Davis, Laura

Shaw, Elizabeth O.

Whitley, Cora Call

Women in the armed forces

See: Women and War

Women’s clubs

See: Women’s Clubs and Organizations

Women’s movement

Conklin, Charlene

Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission

Everett, Beverly George

Goldman, Louise

Iowa City Women’s Press

Iowa ERA Coalition

Iowa Women Against the ERA

Jones, Grace Morris Allen

Jane Weiss Scholarship

Klemesrud, Judy

National Organization for Women, Ames

National Organization for Women, Grinnell Chapter

Noun, Louise

Smith, Mary Louise

Spencer, Kappie

World travelers

Anderson, Delvena

Cameron, Cornelia

Clarkson, Elizabeth

Cowden, Ruth M. Roland

Jones, Virginia S.

Tate, Elizabeth Crawford

Walls, Esther J.

Wescott, Lois

Zeller, Micki

Writers

Aldrich, Bess Streeter

Everett, Beverly George

Ford, Cassie Thompson

Gebers, Nellie M.

Goldman, Louise

Hamblin, Dora Jane

Hamlin, Ella Bushnell

Harshbarger, Gretchen

Harshbarger, May Bennett

Hoit, Judy Herron

Iowa Women Endeavors

Raymond, Margaret Thomsen

Kidney, Joy Neal

Lloyd, Billie D..

Place, Dorothy Sprout

Pownall, Dorothy Ashby

White, Lucy Van Voorhis

Youth

Goodrich, Julie

Knowler, Faith

Longchamp, Sarah Alien

Noble Photograph Collection

North Madison Happy Pals

Odell, Mary Jane

Raymond, Margaret Thomsen

Shambaugh, Jessie Field