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Personal letters about family members and some papers regarding settling an estate, 1863-1898.

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This collection consists of one sepia toned 9 x 13" landscape photographic print; group of graduates and female teacher dated January 1916; handwriting on back provides names, School No. 14 Buchanan, 6th and Oak Street Davenport Iowa.

Scope and Contents The donor's father apparently created original movies of the Scott County courthouse demolition and the State Furniture store fire in 1955 which he then digitized. Photographs have very little information. Below are the file names and a brief description.723 West 17th Street - of exterior of house, yard, man and woman and three childrenElizabeth A. and Jabez - of a young couple, possibly from a tintype originallyEPSON - houses and Centennial...

Scope and Contents This 7 x 9.5" sepia print by Burch Studio features a small inset of the school exterior in the center surrounded by insets of the supertintendent, D.R. Littell, and the thirteen class members identified as:Willroth, RheaSwanson, EdwardInhelder, ElmerNeumeister, EarlDruhl, JohnBryant, MyrtleSwale, JackEllison, HaroldTeel, MargaretSchroeder, ThomasWalker, John...

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This collection consists of 40 snapshots of people and places including Clinton, Davenport, Linwood and Aurora IL. 24 have some form of identification.

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Program for 3-act opera "Egypta the Wondrous Story of the Nile" which was a benefit for Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences in October 1894.

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This collection consists of one 8 x 10" print mounted to cardstock of group of children and young adults standing on steps outside building which donor the indicates is Butler School #1. Research supports this claim because a school was on the land as per donor.

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This collection contains videocassette and 16 mm film of Camp Fire Girls Camp SES-KO-ME from 1968, and a blue binder with script for the film. Also includes brief history of the camp site at Allen's Grove, newspaper clippings, pictures, brochures, pamphlets, and a few personal items.

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This collection contains newspaper clippings about Lance Corporal Carl Olson, a student at the Annie Wittenmyer Home who was killed in Vietnam.

Scope and Contents Type Size Format # DescriptionNEGS 4 x 5” Bw acetate 21 1951 flood ANSCO Supreme Pan; some match the prints; NEGS 3.5 x 2.5” Bw acetate 10 1954 flood; PRINT 4.5 x 7” Bw 1 Misc male group; PRINT 6.5 x 8.5” Bw 1 Misc male group; PRINTS 8 x 10” Bw 19 Farm Bureau groups, Picnic-shooting contest, 1940 Corn Husking contest at Keppy farm; PRINTS 4 x 5” Bw 23 1951 flood Municipal Stadium, Riverfront, RR yard,...

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This collection contains citizenship and military record documents for Carl Vilhelm Jespersen, filed in Black Hawk County, Iowa ca. 1936-1944. Jespersen lived for a time in Grand Mound, Iowa.

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This collections contains approximately 100 black and white photographic images glued to black scrapbook paper. Topics include employees and children living at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home (later named Annie Wittenmyer Home) in the early 1940s, images of a Scott County trailer park flooded in the 1940s, and some interior images of the Conservatory at VanderVeer Park dated 1948. Many images are unidentified.

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Sudlow Intermediate School newspaper "The Tiger" 1927-1933 West Intermediate School newspaper "The Sunset" 1924 St. Paul's Lutheran Messenger 1904 Chamber of Commerce News 1934, 1935 Quad-City Commerce Quarterly 1958

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Subject is likely Joseph H. Gue; Cartes de visite; Photographers Egbert & Cook; 312 Brady Street; Davenport; see external document

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This collection contains 1 2.5 x 4" carte-de-visite of unidentified woman taken at I.N. Cook's photography studio at 82 Brady Street, Davenport. City directories indicate the studio was located at that address in 1873.

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This collection consists of one sepia image of 1901 May play cast. Event held at Claus Groth Hall, Davenport. Cast members are dressed in full costume with props and most if not all are children.

Donor included photocopies of death records for Jane Cornwall and her husband, Mr. Furbee, as well as a newspaper clipping from TX. Cornwall is in the image according to donor.

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The collection consists of personal memorabilia pertaining to Immaculate Conception Academy Class of 1950, Marycrest College, St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Davenport Diocese Priests, Quad-City baseball teams, local performing groups, some personal items pertaining to family. Images of baseball teams, Caywood, Immaculate Conception Academy Class.

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This collection contains two audio cassette tapes. The first is called "Songs From Buffalo Bill Ground" published in 1992 including ten songs and "Seasonal Joy at Nap-Sin-Ekee and Julie the Belle of the River" published in 1993. The tapes have never been removed from cellophane wrappers.

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This collection consists of a 1854 Deed for Cedar County, Iowa property described as NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 12, Township 81N, Region 2W. It is a deed granting ownership from Ebeneezer and Clarissa Cook to Daniel Davis. This document was notarized by Judge John F. Dillon and is dated 1854.

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This collection consists of organizational records of the Celtic Heritage Trail of the Quad Cities, a 501c3 organization formed in 2003 and dissolved in 2011.

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This collection contains cemetery plat maps of county cemeteries, negative or positive prints.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one newsletter and the contents of three magnetic photograph albums documenting four different trips the Club made during 1983-1984 to Fireside Theatre in Atkinson, Wisconsin to see the production "South Pacific", a trip to Kalona, Iowa, an outing to House on the Rock in Wisconsin and a Chicago Cubs/St. Louis Cardinals baseball game in Chicago, Illinois.The single issue of "Chairman's Club News" is dated April 1983 Volume 1 No. 1.The bulk...

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This collection consists of items from Davenport's Chamber Commercer. In 2011, the name changed to Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce.

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Color slides in archival slide sheets and a viewer. Some identification work done for each sheet by Mary Ann Moore, SC employee, and Bernard Bailey, SC volunteer. Specifics vary broadly.

Several sheets appear to have been used for programs. Most slides are of Davenport buildings, homes, parks, improvements, etc. There are some slides that are of signs or cartoonish illustrations not specific to this area including topics of voting, labor unions, etc.

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Rare books and manuscripts, including a Babylonian clay tablet, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese and Japanese manuscripts, Korans, Bibles, and incunables.

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This collection contains 4 images (6 photographs) of Davenport City Hall prior to construction of annex; Specifications for construction of City Hall annex; 1899 Davenport City Directory pocket edition; aerial photos of Carey addition prior to subdivision in the area north of Duck Creek and east of Jersey Ridge Road; black and white and color negatives of items in Davenport Museum of Art collection, 1981

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a German language Bible of unknown date and origin that had several pressed leaves and a vocabulary list of English words within its pages. There is no personal information recorded in the volume. The pressed leaves were between pages 254-255, 636-637 and the oak leave between 850-8551. The Vocabulary list was found between pages 462-463.Additionally one original page of the German language Davenport newspaper, the Iowa Reform, from 19...

Scope and Contents This collection contains a rare tintype, Ladies Industrial Relief Society papers, Fred Schwengel correspondence, Republican National Party activities, Paul Norton prints, and color slides of Annie Wittenmyer orphanage farmland.Scope and Content Note/Container List Removed from Accession and cataloged for public shelf October 2004 per ALG: Revised History of Wilton, Iowa containing a complete reprint of Wilton History 1854-1876 by Rider & Stevenson pub 1947 Author: Henry...

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This collection consists of one ceramic mug, tan in color with a brown line drawing of the C.R.I. & P Railroad Station in Davenport, Iowa that is signed "Howell Shannon" and stamped "Made in England" on the bottom.

Scope and Contents Christensen Family Papers dates from 1858 – 1970s and measures approximately 1.6 linear feet. The collection is arranged in five series: Photographs, Postcards, Personal and Business Documents, Davenport Public School items, Ephemeral items.Series One (ca 1880-1940) Photographs-portraiture and a few residences. Mostly local photographers. Some identification.Series Two (ca 1900-1910) Postcards – many local sites and buildings.Series Three...