Papers, 1914-1974.

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1914-1974.

Diaries (1950-1974), articles, clippings, photographs, miscellaneous printed matter relating to Mathews' travel, personal interests hobbies, family members and her career as a teacher.

2 linear ft. (4 archives boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7645215

Iowa State Historical Society

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Frank, Anne, 1929-1945

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Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents were Edith and Otto Heinrich Frank; she had an older sister Margot (born 1926). The family were liberal Jews. During the rise of Hitler's Nazi Germany the hatred of Jews and the poor economic situation made Anne's parents decide to move to Amsterdam in 1934. There, Otto founded a company that traded in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. The Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and started putting restrictions on J...

Mathews, Birdie B., 1880-1974.

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Elementary school teacher for 47 years in Danville, Pleasant Grove and Prairie Grove schools, notable for her students' pen pal exchanges with Europeans, including Anne Frank and her sister Margot. From the description of Papers, 1914-1974. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 51897602 ...

Mathews family.

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