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Collection
Identifier: 2008-19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains National History Day Projects donated by students to the Davenport Public Library. Topics: Civilian Conservation Corps, Annie Wittenmyer, "Stair Steps of the Mississippi: An Innovative Method to Tame a Wild River”, and "Sisallissota: Red Revolution in a Divided Finland"
Dates:
2008-2012
Collection
Identifier: 2013-20
Scope and Contents
1845 letter from Judge James Grant and wife to sister-in-law Celia Hubbard mentions some local names [transcription in external document]
Cabinet card of Lucy (Hubbard) Hitchcock (1827-1898) by Ormsby ca 1888-1893. She was the mother of W. H. Hitchcock and the widow of Jared Beecher Hitchcock.
1886 story about Lucy Hubbard and Hannah Pierce getting lost on the prairie in November 1840 - one typed page by William H. Hitchcock.
CDV of Maggie Van Cott...
Dates:
1845-1970
Collection
Identifier: 2001-06
Scope and Contents
Many identified on back. Some research done to help with dating images in external document.The images date from the 1880’s - 1930’s and measure 0.2 linear feet.
Locales represented include Scott County and Camp Dodge in Iowa, McLean and Bloomington in Illinois, Cincinnati, Ohio and Huron, South Dakota.
Surnames represented are: Hoffmann, Wright, Backer/Baker, Holst, Sutton, Zoeller, Struck, Randolph, Moldenschardt and Toensfeldt.
Photographers represented are: Reinking, Bush,...
Dates:
1880-1930
Collection
Identifier: 2020-07
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of poetry pertaining to the homeless experience written by the donor over a period of three years.
Dates:
2004-2007
Collection
Identifier: 2020-02
Scope and Contents
This panoramic print was taken in June 1940 by Davenport, Iowa photographer Fromader. It is a large group of people posed in several rows outdoors. Many are holding accordians. The Daily Times on Friday, June 21, 1940 reported invitations were accepted by 300 accordion and piano students of the Honolulu Conservatory of Music for a garden party given annyually in their honor by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Saas, owners of the conservatory, at their home - 1410 East Eleventh Street in Davenport. It...
Dates:
1940 June
Collection
Identifier: 2019-81
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a great deal of documentation on the Durant, Iowa education and life of Shirley Horstmann, but also includes historic photographic images of the Horstmann and Schumaker families of Clinton and Scott Counties. Baptismal and marriage records, school diplomas and certificates of achievement, and correspondence between her parents in the 1940s is included as is other Horstmann family correspondence. School documents,funeral cards and memory books of family members are...
Dates:
1913-2019
Collection
Identifier: 2008-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains drafts of articles and/or programs pertaining to local area history believed to have been written by Hortense Finch, teacher and newspaper contributor. Topics include buildings, residences, hotels, stores, Credit Island, downtown Davenport.
Dates:
1965-1979
Collection
Identifier: 2004-53
Scope and Contents
Map published in 1921 by Huebinger. For more information about this collection, please consult with a Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center staff member.
Dates:
1921
Collection
Identifier: 2004-57
Scope and Contents
Black and white photocopy of original 1916 map; shows Scott, Jackson, Jones, Linn, Clinton, Cedar, Muscatine, Washington, Johnson, Louisa and Rock Island Counties - For more information about this collection, please consult with a Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center staff member.
09/2022: Color photocopy of original available at SC MAP 917.7769 HUEB AUTO 1916 C07 D01 c.1
Dates:
1916
Collection
Identifier: 2020-23
Scope and Contents
The Blackhawk 1965, 1966 - yearbooks from Davenport High School
Martin Luther King, Jr. Pacem in Terris Speech - Davenport, IA April 28, 1965 on an audio compact disc
Certificate of Raymond C. Judd December 1932 appointment to Cadet Second Lieutenant
3 VHS tapes: QC Tourism, 1993 Flood, Timothy Kane Productions "Davenport" (1993)
Flier from American Nazi Party (1980s)
Dates:
1932-1990s
