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Collection
Identifier: 2021-22
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This scrapbook was started by sisters Sarah and Nellie Peetz, daughters of Captain John and Johanna Peetz of Rock Island, Illinois. Nellie was 14 years old and Sarah was 35 years of age when they began selecting and adhering items to the pages of this large book. An interesting article about the volume was found in the Rock Island Argus, Monday April 5, 1948 in The Town Crier column. The scrapbook contains items clipped from newspapers and magazines as well as...
Dates:
1894-1956
Collection
Identifier: 2010-09
Scope and Contents
Print 8/25 of a pen and ink drawing of Bix Beiderbecke by artist William D. Hannon, approximately 8 x 14 inches.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: 2018-53
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Photographic images by Lenz Photography Studio, some 404 Brady. CDV by Geo. Jones, successor to Miller & Co. cor 3rd and Brady. Lenz was at that address 1883-1887. All of adult men in uniform, holding swords and some with hat. Possibly members of an organization, such as Knights of Pythias.
Dates:
1880-1890
Collection
Identifier: 2014-08
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This collection was created by the P.E.O Sisterhood Chapter FJ of Davenport, Iowa. It's officers and membership recorded and created these materials. The collection contains recording secretary's book with treasurer's reports, a history of the local chapter, photographic prints, and scrapbooks from the 1950s through 2003. The documents in this collection also include biographical information about their membership such as member Patricia Barry, an actress, and LaWanda Roudebush, former...
Dates:
1919-2011
Collection
Identifier: 2007-12
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Civil War discharge papers, pension correspondence, several deeds for Fritz Berger of Blue Grass, Iowa; mostly 1863-1884.
Dates:
1863-1884
Collection
Identifier: 2018-44
Scope and Contents
Coupon/Advertisement for the 21st contest sponsored by the National Association of Department Store Photograph Studios from Peterson-Harned-Von Maur Jean Sardou Studio. Item is a colorful train cutout. Newspaper ad states $5,000 in cash awards by six famous judges. See Daily Times 1 Aug 1955 page 1-B
Dates:
1955
Collection
Identifier: 2018-29
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The Evans/Black Series is made up of authors Phil and Linda Evans' personal collection of myriad items pertaining to jazz music and musicians. Evans made a lifelong quest to find and document the reminiscences of anyone who knew Bix Beiderbecke, or was in any way connected to him. Much of the material was collected and used as documentation for manuscripts on musicians Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and "Red" Nichols. Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, as well as other bands and orchestras of that...
Dates:
1900-2018
Collection
Identifier: 2006-06
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This collection contains 1 color photograph size 8" x 12" of 7 musicians playing at Oakdale Cemetery gravesite of Bix Beiderbecke taken in 1996 by George Schlenker. Donor states trombonist on left played with Bix Beiderbecke.
Dates:
1996
Collection
Identifier: 1989-01
Content Description
Photocopy (22 pages) of an original letter from Austin Corbin in Davenport, Iowa to his parents, Austin and Mary Corbin in Newport, New Hampshire, October 29, 1851. The letter's opening briefly describes the cities of Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois; its conclusion the scenery and towns along the Mississippi River between Lansing, Dubuque, and Davenport; and its bulk recounts Corbin's journey via railway, steamboat, stage coach and private carriage from Bellows Falls, Vermont to...
Dates:
1851 October 29
Collection
Identifier: 2008-16
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This collection contains 1 album of cabinet cards and cartes de visite. Mostly local photographers and German photographer Theodor Harder of Schleswig-Holstein.
Dates:
1875-1920
