African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

International Book Year 1972 scrapbook, vol. 1

First United Methodist Church sorority, Iowa City, Iowa, 1947

"This old house an isle of pride, acceptance," April 18, 2001

Hawkeye 1950 [excerpt]

Hawkeye 1949 [excerpt]

"UI honoree decided to make a difference," July 30, 1988

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

Esther Walls and Femi Oyewole in front of Nigerian map, Nigeria, August 1964

Hawkeye 1922 [excerpt]

Esther J. Walls interview, October, 1986

Hawkeye 1955 [excerpt]

Esther Walls' telegram to LT at Franklin Book, May 5, 1967

Book Publishing and Library Workshop attendees, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1973

"Esther Walls has discussion series at New York branch library which she heads," October 26, 1962

Girls' Dance Team, Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA of Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa, March 25, 1941

Invitations received and programs attended by Esther Walls, 1959-1965

Members of Black Writers panel chatting, Countee Cullen Branch of New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., May 1963

Roy DeCarava and Esther Walls at gallery show at Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., 1963

"She finds our Book Year programme 'fantastic'," November 27, 1972

"Retired librarian could write book about life, career," December 23, 1996

Esther Walls' letter to Alden Clark of Franklin Book, April 25, 1967

"Student jobs part of extended hiring freeze," April 23, 1975

Program for University of Iowa Homecoming, 1990 [excerpt]

International Book Year 1972 scrapbook, vol. 2

"Negro girl crowned as Miss S.U.I.," 1955

Multiracial quartet in performance, First United Methodist Church, Iowa City, Iowa, late 1940s

Hawkeye 1912 [excerpt]

"It is not the brains that matter most," January 1991

Esther Walls' letter to Franklin Book Program staff, May 25, 1968

"U of I black woman graduate, 96, dies," February 7, 1988

Esther Walls' general correspondence, 1949

"Books close the gap," November 28, 1972

Hawkeye 1956 [excerpt]

Althea Beatrice Moore Smith scrapbook, 1924-1928

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

Esther Walls posed with a copy of La Vida by Oscar Lewis, 1972

Jewette Lewis and friend, Albia, Iowa, 1900s

Oral history interview with Barbara Brown James, May 18, 1998 [excerpts]

Arlene Roberts Morris posed with bicycle, Iowa City, Iowa?, 1946

"'Duchess Arlene' soars above race," February 21, 2006

Roscoe Spencer letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register, July 31, 1985

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

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

"A Mason City woman's globe-traveling career," December 7, 1971

"Iowa University students live the golden rule," December 16, 1955

"Education drive profits Britain," May 8, 1967

A dance performance at International House, New York, N.Y., 1951

"Two distinct libraries serve readers in Harlem," October 18, 1964