DSM Home for Sightless Women

1424 West 30th Street, Des Moines, Iowa
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Home for Sightless Women, Des Moines, Iowa

Phalla Hinckley State Solicitor.

Home for Sightless Women, Des Moines, Iowa Card Back

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PRESIDENT--L. E. Howard
VICE PRESIDENT--Mrs. Warren Garst
SEC'Y-TREASURER--Miss Eva Whitcomb
1318 Twenty-third Street
Mrs. Frank Waterbury, Des Moines
Mrs. J. B. Jordan, Vinton
Mrs. M. M. Boyce, Burlington
Miss J. Wallace, Des Moines

ADVISORY BOARD

Mrs. J. D. Whisenand     Mrs. Willis Gould
Mrs. George King
Mrs. Harry Polk     Mrs. W. G. Harvison
Mrs. C. E. Huhn
Mrs. Louis Garst     Mrs. James Carss
Mrs. T. M. Langan

The 1920 Federal Census lists Miss Eva Whitcomb (1865-1923) at this address, denoted as the "Iowa Home for Sightless Women." Eva Whitcomb is listed as "Superintendent" with another lady at matron and 4 "inmates". This particular address appears to have been used for the home from 1915-1934.

Postcard contributed by David Shedlock; research by Karon Velau.


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