To illustrate the critical role of women in science, the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering sponsored an oral history project focused on women who devoted their careers to the study of chemistry in the post-World War II era. This collection contains the oral histories of women chemists.
Ada Hayden was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy at Iowa State. She also became curator of the Herbarium and added over 18,000 specimens to the collection.
The digital collection contains biographical information, college papers, course notes, photographs, specimen drawings, correspondence, reports, articles, book reports, scientific correspondence and articles, and glass specimen slides. Items for the digital collection were selected as representative of Heywood's development as a scientific illustrator and her education in science, her relationships with other scientists (both men and women), her civic engagement, and her contributions to entomology. The complete collection is available at the Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives.
