Eve lyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials
Description:
Collection is divided into several series. The Birkby series contains clippings about Birkby, including a 1991 "New Yorker" article by Jane and Michael Stern that relates the history of KMA and KFNF and the radio homemakers and includes an interview with Evelyn and Robert Birkby. The KFNF and KMA series, 1926-1987, contains primarily newsletters and recipe books, some taken from the homemakers' programs. Among the homemakers featured are Jessie S. Young, Edith Hansen, Florence Falk, Evelyn Birkby and Billie Oakley. The KMA Radio series also in cludes a small collection of photographs. The Miscellaneous Radio Homemaker materials includes books by radio homemakers from South Dakota and Oklahoma. The Photographs series, 1948-1965 and n.d., consists of photographs of Birkby and other radio homemakers. The Audiovisual series includes a video documentary about the radio homemakers and audio tapes of radio homemaker programs.
Dates:
1948-1994
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa