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Collection
Identifier: 2018-21
Scope and Contents
Family photographs of Elegius aka Eleck Weingartner family and sites in Davenport area c1890-1900. Burial of son Emil, veteran of Spanish American war are included. Weingartner residence was 1103 West 8th Street. Davenport scenes as well as some in Nebraska. Miscellaneous pages from Civil War book are also included.
Dates:
1890-1900
Collection
Identifier: 2015-24
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of bound volumes, photographs, maps and atlases. Images pertain to Einfeldt family circa 1890-1920. Some maps are miscellaneous Scott County, Iowa atlases and maps.
Brief Inventory:
1 oversize flat box containing 22 Einfeldt family photographs
5 oversize volumes including
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Vol. 1 and 2
Scott County, Iowa atlases and miscellaneous maps
22 images of various dimensions taken by several Davenport photography studios as well as...
Dates:
1890-1990
Collection
Identifier: 2021-31
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two letters, one envelope, and two pieces of paper pertaining to the family of George Welsh (1839-1899). Welsh writes to his eldest child, daughter Irene, from Washington state describing the area and teasing about bringing back gold from Alaska. One original envelope remains. Also included is a typed note providing family history information about George's family of origin and a small handwritten note identifying George and Alice Welsh in an 1863 photograph taken...
Dates:
1898-1899
Collection
Identifier: 2023-05
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two mounted photographic prints. The first is identified in handwriting on the back as "September 10, 1926 Morton J. Marks Company". This measures 7 x 9" overall with the sepia image measuring 5 x 7". Nine males are wearing overalls posed in the interior of a brick building. They are surrounded by large cardboard boxes labeled as breakfast cereals from Kellogg's and Post and Ball mason jars. The second is a mounted sepia image measuring 4.5...
Dates:
1890s and 1926
Collection
Identifier: 2014-10
Scope and Contents
This collection contains carbon copies, photocopies, and transcriptions of documents dated 1930 from stockholder Ernest Oberholtzer regarding debt issue.
Dates:
1930
Collection
Identifier: 2023-18
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the Davenport, Iowa West High School Student and Parent Guidebook for 1968-1969, two tin lapel pins from 1967 and 1968 featuring football rivalries with East Moline Panthers and Assumption Knights, and one prom souvenir booklet from "The Impossible Dream" junior-senior prom held at the Hotel Blackhawk May 16, 1969. An accrual received later dates 1995-2000 and consists of nine color images and two posters of the West High School marching band and drum...
Dates:
1967-1969, 1995-2000
Collection
Identifier: 2004-74
Scope and Contents
photocopies of 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924 classes;
Dates:
1920-1924
Collection
Identifier: 2019-46
Scope and Contents
Framed color photographic print by Bob Baker R&B Enterprises Davenport, IA
Dates:
2004 May
Collection
Identifier: 2004-48
Scope and Contents
This collection contains minutes from West View Grange meetings beginning 27Jan1908-1980. There are four minute books the earliest being handwritte and 1950's typed.
Booklet by author R. W. Smith
Newton No. 1: The Second Working Grange in the United States and the First in Iowa and The Early Grange Movement in Some Iowa Counties contains information about the Grange in Muscatine County, Iowa and good historical background information.
Dates:
1908-1980
Collection
Identifier: 2021-21
Scope and Contents
Seven jpg scans of cartes de visites issued by Davenport, Iowa photography studios of Clara Barton and Billy the Kid, and of Abraham Lincoln from a Wisconsin business. The originals remain in the donor's possession. Recto and Verso were scanned. Donor purchased from antique dealerships and has not authenticated subjects of images. Weld's Photograph Gallery on the corner of 2nd and Main appears to have been in business in 1864. This corresponds to the Barton image. [Barton was...
Dates:
2021 Aug digitized
