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Collection Development 2018-present

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-18-Open
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of items chosen to diversify and enhance the library's collection of local history materials. Items have been purchased at sales, online, etc.

Dates: Various

Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1994-07
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopied research materials relating to the George Davenport Family residing on what is known as Arsenal Island, Rock Island, IL. The topics included are relating to business interests, correspondence, genealogy, and early Rock Island history. Highlighted in this collection are letters referring to shipping materials to build the first home in the Quad City area, circa 1833. Most of this collection consists of photocopies, reproduced from originals...
Dates: 1994

Colonial Dames

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-14
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks and records of Board of Managers meetings for the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Iowa.Scrapbooks document the organization's activities. Some photographs are included. Binder of invitations to meetings 1938-2006 collected by Alice Richardson Sloane. Records of Meetings of Board of Managers 1896-1917. Additional minutes of meetings and financial reports 2005 April - 2013 June. Brief Inventory: Box 1 Minutes: Board...
Dates: 1896-2006

Colonial Dames-Davenport Borough

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-21
Scope and Contents

This collection contains minutes of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of American in the State of Iowa, Davenport Borough from 1944-2002.

Dates: 1944-2002

Company C 8th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment photograph

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-73
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of original Civil War era photograph showing group of eight men in uniform including Lytle Stephens seated on the right; believe to have been taken St. Louis c1863.

Dates: 1863

Composition Books of Minnie Schick Fregin

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-45
Scope and Contents

Minnie Schick was a Davenport native. These three books appear to have been from her 8th grade school year and contain verses from songs, compositions, and lessons. Each composition book contains cursive handwriting.

See also 2006-04 and 2023-01 regarding Schick/Fregin families.

Dates: 1906-1907

Conrad Tinky Myers diary and supporting materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-03
Scope and Contents

1859 diary of Scott county resident, believe may have belonged to Conrad Tinkey Myers. Photograph album taken apart and images placed in archival envelopes. Variety of school books and novels. Bank book and checkbook from Citizens National Bank [ca. 1902]. Flood of 1965 special edition of The Clinton Herald. Miscellaneous lose documents and objects. Other materials date up to 1965. Inventory available.

Dates: 1859-1965

Construction site photographs (unidentified locations)

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-06
Scope and Contents

Images show construction sites; two are labeled as Jefferson School (town unknown) in April and May 1927. One postcard is addressed to Mr. J.H. Hunzinger Davenport, Iowa from C.M. Young. The postmark is British Columbia and the date is July 7, 1923; rest of the images have no identification.

Dates: 1920-1929

Cook's Point Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-12
Content Description

1 oversized box of memorabilia used at reunions for Mexican-American local neighborhood called "Cook's Point".

Dates: 1970-2010

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Women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources 5
Women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Social life and customs 4
Women -- Services for -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 3
Young women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Social life and customs 3
Charities -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 2
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Clubs -- Iowa -- Davenport 2
Images, Photographic 2
Young women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Charities, protection, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
clippings (information artifacts) 2
Adoption 1
Art fairs--Social aspects. 1
Art fairs--United States. 1
Art fairs. 1
Art festivals. 1
Booklet 1
Books 1
Buildings -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 1
Cabinet photographs -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 1
Cemeteries -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 1
Civil War -- United States 1
Construction industry -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 1
Contracts 1
Costume--Art. 1
Davenport (Iowa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs 1
Davenport (Iowa) -- Intellectual life 1
Davenport (Iowa) -- Social life and customs 1
Davenport (Iowa)--History. 1
Davenport (Iowa)--Politics and government 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Hunzinger Construction Company -- Buildings -- Photographs 1
Indiana 1
Iowa 1
Lane and Waterman -- Records and correspondence 1
Law firms -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- Sources 1
Literature -- Societies, etc. 1
Looms 1
Military bands 1
Oakdale Cemetery (Davenport, Iowa) -- Records and correspondence 1
Oakdale Memorial Gardens -- Records and correspondence 1
Organization 1
Pakistan 1
Portrait photographers -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Photographs 1
Rock Island (Ill.) 1
Savings banks 1
Textile industry 1
Weaving 1
Women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Intellectual life 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
World War II 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
address books 1
bankbooks 1
bookkeeping registers 1
correspondence 1
mortgage deeds 1
mortgages 1
publicizing 1
ration books 1
receipts (financial records) 1
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Language
English 941
German 5
 
Names
City of Davenport (Iowa) 6
Cook, Clarissa C 2
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 2
Huebinger, M. (Melchior) 2
Lend a Hand Society 2
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Lend-A-Hand Club 2
Moline (Ill.) 2
Quad-City Times 2
Adams, Helen 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Adler, Betty 1
Adler, Henrietta 1
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1
Amarillo (Tex.) 1
Ambrose, Allison S 1
America 1
American Commercial and Savings Bank 1
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1
American Trust Company 1
Andrews, Clarence A. 1
Antarctica 1
Ashton, Ann 1
Austin Crabbs Incorporated 1
Bach, Gerhard, 1943- 1
Baird, Frank 1
Baldwin, Lillian Tice 1
Barry, Patricia, 1930- 1
Bawden, Joyce 1
Bawden, Rita 1
Beaux Arts (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926 1
Bermuda Islands 1
Bertram, Anna 1
Bertram, Claus J 1
Bettendorf (Iowa) 1
Bettendorf Tabernacle 1
Bettendorf, J W 1
Beuse, Walter 1
Blackman, Paddy 1
Bondi, August M. (August Mendel), 1833-1907 1
Bondi, Gladys 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bradley, Ritamary, 1916-2000 1
Brandt Brothers 1
Brigode, Diane 1
Britt, Edward 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooke, Libbet 1
Buchanan School (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Business and Professional Women's Club (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Calvary Baptist Church (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Camp Minneyata 1
Carbondale (Ill.) 1
Carroll, Molly 1
Catherine Club 1
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 1
Catholic Women’s League 1
Central Trust and Savings Bank 1
Chamberlin, J A 1
Cheney, Anna Susan Moore 1
Cheney, Burton Henry 1
Cheney, Edith 1
Cheney, Romala 1
Chihuly, Dale, 1941- 1
China 1
Christ Episcopal Church West (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Cissell, Hazel 1
Clausen & Clausen, Architects 1
Clausen, Ernest 1
Clinton (Iowa) 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 1
Coin, Nancy 1
Curtiss-Wright Airport (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1
Dahms, Gustav 1
Davenport Central Turner Society 1
Davenport Chamber of Commerce 1
Davenport Council of Americanization 1
Davenport Democrat and Leader 1
Davenport Exchange Club 1
Davenport Machine and Foundry Co. 1
Davenport Public Library 1
Davenport Women's Club 1
Davenport, George, 1783-1845 1
Davenport, Marcia, 1903-1996 1
Deere & Company 1
Deere & Company Branch Warehouse (Lansing, Mich.) 1
Deere & Company Steel Shed 1
Deere & Company Warehouse (East Moline, Ill.) 1
Deere and Mansur Works 1
Des Moines (Iowa) 1
Dille and McGuire Manufacturing Company 1
Dixon Feed and Seed Company Incorporated 1
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980 1
East Moline State Hospital 1
Egypt 1
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1
Eleanor Club 1
Eleanor Record 1
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