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This digital collection includes photographs and scrapbooks featuring news clippings, newsletters, and correspondence formerly owned by Iowa natives Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith. Noun was a social activist, art collector, and author of several books on women's history. Smith was a political activist who fought for equal rights and became the first female chair of the Republican National Committee. Together, they founded the Louise Noun - Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives, which opened in 1992 at The University of Iowa Libraries.
Reference URL: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/founders
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Archival Collection:
Louise Rosenfield Noun Papers, 1926-2002
Mary Louise Smith Papers, 1925-1997
Related Online Exhibit:
Iowa Women's Archives Timeline |
