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: Acme Insurance Company register, 1883-1901

: Anna McDill estate papers, 1941-1944

: Appeal to the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Conservative Friends for Correction of their Unjust Dealings with Ida R. Chamness, 1918-1940

: Bartholomew family letters, 1852-1893

: Bartholomew miscellaneous documents, 1879-1900

: Bartholomew miscellaneous letters, 1874-1900

: Capital Insurance Company register, 1885-1907

: Clara Wilson letters, 1866-1894

: Diamond Lodge No. 39 register, 1881-1885

: Ella Janette Hancock diary, 1864

: Ellery Hancock diary, 1867

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1863

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1864

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1865

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1868

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1869

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1871

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1902

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1906

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1918

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1919

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1920

: Ellery Moses Hancock diary, 1921

: Ellery Moses Hancock ledger, 1881

: F. H. Wyrick letters, 1893-1907

: George McDill financial papers, 1890-1919

: Hancock family diary, 1879

: Hancock family diary, 1888

: Hancock family diary, 1900

: Ida Chamness and Joel Johnson letters, 1910-1922

: Ida Chamness papers, 1927-1938

: Jolley family letters, 1866 and 1882-1886

: Jolley family photographs, circa 1885-1921

: Joseph McDill letters, 1848-1852

: Joseph McDill letters, 1853-1863

: Joseph McDill letters, 1864-1869

: Joseph McDill letters, 1871-1908

: Joseph McDill photographs, 19th century

: Joseph McDill tax receipts, 1853-1889

: McDill, Ronald and Black family histories

: Mel L. Webster letters to his cousin Minnie, 1883-1889

: Northwestern National Insurance Company register, 1883-1895

: Oakland Home Insurance Company register, 1893

: S. G. Finney letters to his son George, 1872-1875

: S. G. Finney letters to his son George, 1875-1876

: S. G. Finney letters to his son George, 1877-1880

: S. G. Finney letters to his son George, 1880-1886

: S. G. Finney letters to his son George, 1886-1898

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Title: Pioneer Lives
Date Created: 1813/1944
Description: Letters, diaries, and photographs documenting the lives of Iowa's first white settlers, mid- to late-19th century.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Frontier & pioneer life
Homesteading
Farm life
Domestic life
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: Women pioneers
Subject: Time: 1860-1870
1870-1880
1880-1890
Subject: Place: United States -- Iowa
Archival Collection: Pioneer Lives
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
Date Digital: 2013/2014
Contact Information: Contact the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
Contact the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/contactus/
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): correspondence
diaries
Item Type (IMT): tiff
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