Prebyl local history collection

Collection

Identifier: 2015-16

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of various local history artifacts of approximately 500 postcards and 20 photographs.

Additional brought May 21, 2015 included framed items: 1877 Moline, Illinois from atlas, 1877 Davenport, Iowa from atlas, and rolled 1875 Davenport, Iowa from Andreas Atlas.

Box 1:

Program from 1935 Vaudeville Minstrel Show at St. Alphonses
Hickey Brothers guest book, 1951
Tri-City Symphony program from December 2, 1945.
Some photographs were scanned July 2015 and posted to UMVDIA.

Dates

Creation: 1890-2015

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Materials are available for use in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center only.

Request permission before copying materials.

Personal digital cameras and scanners are allowed in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center on a case-by-case basis. The items that a researcher may want to scan or photograph must be examined and evaluated for physical condition, copyright issues, and donor restrictions by staff.

Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.

The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Biographical / Historical

This collection is being processed. For more information about this collection, please consult with a Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center staff member.

Extent

500 Postcards (in Post Card Collection.)

1 Box(es) (1 flat archive box.) ; 11.5 x 15"

19 Photographic Prints (in 4 folders.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Range 33 Section 1 Box 1: Local artifacts

Range 44 Section 2 Photo Box 2: Original photographs

Postcard Collection

Framed items - please ask Richardson-Sloane Staff Member

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift

Separated Materials

4 boxes of LGBT and published items inappropriate to scope of SC collection policy given to selectors. Postcards were separated and put into Postcard Collection.