IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
CATHERINE LEWIS
PAPERS, 1995
2 linear inches and
audiovisual material
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers
(donor no. 301) were donated by Catherine
Lewis in 1995. |
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ACCESS: |
Users of the collection must review restrictions
on use of interviews related to women's softball. |
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AUDIOVISUAL: |
Nine audiocassettes shelved in audiocassette collection (AC344-AC352). |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: |
In box 1. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Rachel Bohlmann, 1996. |
History
During the summer of 1995 Catherine Lewis,
an American Studies graduate student at the University of Iowa, completed an
oral history project for the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American
Folklife and the Iowa Festival of Iowa Folklife for the Sesquicentennial
celebration in 1996. She interviewed
members of women's softball teams, quilters, 4-H members, hand spinners, and a
chain-saw artist about how their art or sport related to their life, and
community, in Iowa.
Scope and
Content Note
The Catherine Lewis papers date from 1995 and measure 2
linear inches and nine audiocassettes.
They include field reports and demographic information on the people
Lewis interviewed, as well as eleven interviews on audiocassette tape. The taped interviews are with softball
players, a rural women's chorus leader, and members of a quilters' guild.
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Everett
Box no. Description
Box 1
Audio tape logs and field
reports, 1995
Iowa City Women's Softball
B-League
Maureen Howe
Leslie Taylor
Jill Jack
M. Maeve Clark
Susan C. Buckley
Kathleen Janz
Sandra Pickup
Johnson County 4-H
Margaret Mishler
Brian Hemann
Shana Greazel
Kim Lacina
Laura Mishler
M and M's Quilting Guild
Karen Ackerman
Opal (Fran) Rogers
Ann Watson
Marilyn Woodin
Rural Women's Choruses
Beverly G. Everett
Iowa City Craft Guild
Jeanne Cadoret
Robin Roseman
Irish folk musician
Dennis Roseman
Chainsaw artist
Jerry Edle
Nine audiocassettes, 1995
[shelved in audiocassette collection]
Interviewees
Maureen Howe
Leslie Taylor
Jill Jack
M. Maeve Clark
Susan C. Buckley
Kathleen Janz
Sandra Pickup
Karen Ackerman
Beverly G. Everett
Marilyn Woodin
Jeanne Cadoret
Photographs of women's
softball "Dress Up" game, 1995