Papers of the Nissen family, 1936-1996.

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Nissen family. Papers of the Nissen family, 1936-1996.

Papers of the Nissen family, 1936-1996.

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The Nissen family papers consist of biographical sketches and scrapbooks which are a useful source on women's club activities, farm life, illness, and medical practice in the mid-20th century and offer an extensive history of a farm family, especially the women. The biographical sketches, accompanied by copies of photographs and newspaper clippings and written chiefly by Eleanor Nissen Bell, document the lives of her parents, Harold and Wilma Nissen, her sisters Phyllis Chenault, Trudy Marks, and Joan Kriedemann, and her great-great grandparents Ewald and Anna Nissen who were born in Germany in the 1830s and William and Lydia Price who were born in the early 1800s and lived in Moundsville, Va. The scrapbooks, also compiled by Eleanor Bell, document the life of her mother, Wilma, and contain personal writings by her mother as well as materials on her activities in 4-H, women's clubs including the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, and rural women's activities. A separate scrapbook records Eleanor Nissen's activities in the East Pottawattamie County 4-H club from 1936 to 1942 and consists of questionnaires, record books, programs, shapshots, and newspaper clippings. A final scrapbook records her activity in the University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders from 1943 to 1947.

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