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African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

: Aunt Hattie and her husband Melvin in front of sod home, Speed, Kansas, 1860s

: Ben and Sally Lewis and baby Udeil, Albia, Iowa, 1890s

: Eldist Walls and sisters in front of house, 1900s

: Eldist Walls in uniform during World War I, 1918

: Esther and sister Madelyn Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1994

: Esther Walls and father Eldist Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1950s

: Esther Walls and mother Jewette Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1950s

: Jewette Lewis and friend, Albia, Iowa, 1900s

: Madelyn and Esther Walls in graduation caps and gowns, Mason City, Iowa, 1944

: Madelyn, Jewette, and Esther Walls at Riverside Park, New York City, N.Y., 1960s

: Mason City Junior College friends posing, Mason City, Iowa, 1946

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Title: African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
Date Created: 1860/2006
Description: More than 250 items, including photographs, news clippings, correspondence, and scrapbooks, reflecting the experience of African American women in Iowa during the 20th century.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Civil rights
Segregation
Racism
Universities & colleges
Activists
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: African American women
Subject: Time: 1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
Subject: Place: United States -- Iowa
Archival Collection: African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection; African American Women Students at the University of Iowa, 1910-1960
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. University Archives
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
Date Digital: 2006/2008
Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information: Contact the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/iwa/
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): photographs
clippings (information artifacts)
Item Type (IMT): jpeg