Illinois Newspaper Morgue
Scope and Contents
Originally made up of approximately 13 boxes of items purged from the collection of the Rock Island County (IL) Historical Society in 2018. Other repositories received items pertinent to their locale, ex: Henry County, IL. The Society kept items pertaining to Rock Island County, IL and gave DPL anything pertaining to Iowa.
Includes articles from Illinois newspapers The Rock Island Argus and The Dispatch and The Leader, a Bettendorf publication in association with the IL firms. Newspaper clippings, photographic prints and negatives, flongs, plastic plates, steel plates, and ephemera/documents pertaining to local events and subjects.
Purged items that did not pertain to people closely connected to Davenport or high interest local areas.
Majority of collection is “mug shots” that accompanied announcement of a promotion or retirement, entrepreneurs, landmark anniversaries and birthdays, candidates for local elections, mayors, local artists and authors, and so forth.
There were very few / no images associated with surnames beginning with: J, Q, T, U, V, X, Y, Z
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1999
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.
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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.
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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.
Extent
3.5 records_center_cartons
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Range 45 Sections 6 and 7
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center Repository
321 Main Street
Davenport IA 52801-1490 United States
specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com