More than 250 items, including photographs, news clippings, correspondence, and scrapbooks, reflecting the experience of African American women in Iowa during the 20th century.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
University of Iowa Archives
State Historical Society of Iowa
A subcollection focusing on the UI's African American alumnae and featuring more than 150 artifacts, including yearbooks, dance cards, photographs and more.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
University of Iowa Archives
State Historical Society of Iowa
Paintings, drawings, and personal papers documenting the life and career of the artist, an Iowa native and UI alumna.
Photographs, scrapbooks, and audio recordings from the Iowa native, radio homemaker, and author. Included are thousands of full-text searchable clippings of Birkby's homemaking newspaper column, ca. 1949-2005.
Integrated access to more than 16,000 digital objects from the Iowa Women's Archives, with browsing access by subject, format, and time period.
Several hundred artifacts, including photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence, documenting the lives of activists and IWA founders Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith.
Several hundred digitized artifacts by or about University of Iowa alumna Mildred Wirt Benson: journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghostwriter, and the original author of the best-selling Nancy Drew mystery series.
Documenting the lives and contributions of Latinas and their families to Iowa history, this collection includes several hundred digitized artifacts, such as oral histories, clippings, postcards, and photographs.
Features hundreds of historic images of and by Iowa women, documenting early 20th-century rural life. Subjects include farms, parades, schools, automobiles and houses; artifacts include panoramic photographs, postcards, and cabinet cards.
Nearly 1,000 images, ca. 1906-2004, documenting a pioneering program in the development of graduate study and professional training as well as athletic opportunities for women.
