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This collection consists of information on individuals serving Davenport Police Department 1844-2012; researched and compiled by donor.

Scope and Contents All photographs and negatives from folder show Davenport Public Library facilities and resources from approximately 1960-1980. They were from a folder labeled "Q-C Times Newspaper Library Exhibit-Black and White Photos". One small print of a woman standing in front of the bookmobile is labeled "Jan Walker". Several prints are of the artist's rendering of library interiors and furnishings - by Wingate. The large image of the interior library is taken from the second floor looking down and is...

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This collection includes photographs of bookmobiles, opening of Annie Wittenmyer Branch, and new Main library building

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Color slides, black and white prints, color prints, Polaroid photographs of people working at DPL and the Bookmobile from 1950s-1980s. Images of Hill's Department store set up to function as the library during the demolition and building of the E.D. Stone building, programs, individuals, various interiors and several exterior shots are included. New children's wing, interiors and exteriors of the Bookmobile. Very few loose items identified.

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This collection contains Davenport Public School Directories from 1931-1989. It also contains a publication "W.D. Petersen: Father of the Davenport Levee" and a bound volume called Cram's Standard American Railway System.

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artifact--silver medal 1.25" diameter engraved Amanda Moldenscheidt 7th grade 1890; likely a Kuhnen Medal given for deportment, attendance and progress in Davenport public schools from ___ - 1913.

Scope and Contents Roster books, histories, Rotary Wheel publication; images; clippings; articles of incorporation; reports to governor; ephemeral items; original charter added 8/2014; Added June 2017 Club Minutes and Records, Board Minutes and Records, Financial Records, Attendance Records, Music, Projects, Clippings, booksPhotographs - many snapshots: Roudebush was taking copies to meetings and trying to get identification. There are posters and boxes of unprocessed...

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Image by Frank O. Free, Davenport photographer. Sepia print measures 8x10" and is in a paper frame measuring about 11x13". Names of teachers and students are handwritten on the back. School is not identified.

Scope and Contents Series 1 contains commencement programs from Davenport High School dating 1881-1949 with some years missing. YEAR ANNUAL # of COPIES NOTES 1881 na 1 1882 na 1 1883 na 2 1885 na 1 1887 na 1 1888 32 2 1889 33 1 1890 34 1 1891 35 1 1892 na 1 1894 na 2 1898 na 1 1899 na 1 1902 2 first mid-year...

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Blackhawk Newspaper 1982-1983, 1984-1985; The Crest 1969-1971; Rockety-I 1956; various publications

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This collection contains notes held by members of the Davenport Shooting Association, 1900-1903. Copies are in SCUSI file

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Consists of materials from local Toastmistress club including membership lists, officers, constitution, scrapbooks, programs, newsletters, unidentified photographic images, awards and other miscellaneous items. Parker Parliamentary Law Club items also included.

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Records of the club, including minutes, scrapbooks, programs c. 1900-1995. Additional materials donated 1/20/2001 including yearbooks and minute book, 1989-1998.2006 rec'd 1973-74 scrapbook and 2 photo albums.

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1967 map - For more information about this collection, please consult with a Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center staff member.

Scope and Contents Ten archival boxes of portraiture associated with Stafford, Suiter, Morgan, Ward, Adams families of Scott County, Iowa; prints, acetate negatives, tintypes, CDVs, photographic postcards, Polaroids, copies, digital copies.Eighteen archival boxes of genealogical documentation for same families. All connected with Scott County, Iowa particularly the Le Claire and rural Le Claire areas.This collection of photographs and compilations of research came from a long time Scott...

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Papers of author David Collins including newspaper clippings, photographs, teaching contracts, and report cards.

Scope and Contents Donor's letter states "As a hobby I travel to antique shows and flea markets and purchase photos and mail them back to their place of origin."Sent under cover of two seperate mailings, one in February, one in May: photocopy from June 25, 1927 The War Cry - a Salvation Army publication, including a paragraph on the Sam Woodgate family of Davenport and their Davenport Corps Band.From Ladies Home Hournal February 1916 page 5 - Just See What Davenport Has Done re:...

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This collection consists of photographs, negatives, slides, and one brochure of the Quad City area with an emphasis on downtown scenes, street cars, and electric utilities dating from 1890s to 1950s. The majority of these prints depict Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company, Tri-City Peoples Light Company, and United Light Company. The "Growing Up with the Tri-Cities" is an open house brochure for one of the businesses. It is dated 1926.

Scope and Contents PANORAMIC birdseye view of Davenport by J. B. Hostetler may be original print in new matte and frame. Shows buildings between Government Bridge and Centennial Bridge west to east, and tops of 6th Street buildings to river with Rock Island riverfront in the distance. Measures about 9" x 40". Probably ca 1915 Scans of ten GLASS NEGATIVES showing Moline vs. Rock Island playing football in 1915 per writing on two negatives. One group of males and females dressed in costumes. Rest...

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This collection contains photocopies of Decatur County Iowa Cemetery Records with additional details added for Hamilton and New Salem Cemeteries.

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2008 directory lists residents by street address as well as a cross directory listing which is alphabetical by resident. This is not a professionally printed directory.

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This collection contains land documentation ca. 1840-1900 for Scott County Section 21, Township 78 North, Range 4 East. Surnames include Wachter, Freund, Sulemire, Mather, Ives, Hutt, Nichols, and Hawley. Hand-drawn plat maps by Scott County Surveyor W. P. Campbell.

Scope and Contents Most images in this collection are identified with the Del Rae Studio, Davenport Iowa embossed seal or stamped with the name Photographer Ralph Stanley. Subject matter is airplanes, airports, construction projects and aerial shots of Davenport and area. Estimated dates 1930-1940's. 16 x 20” Aerial Photographs - 10 total Unidentified airport Unidentified factory along river (IL side? Campbell’s Island?) Unidentified factory with quarry beside and bridge in distance (Buffalo?...

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This collection contains 1 ca. 1950's black and white print mounted on board showing riverboat Delta Queen docked at Rock Island river front with a view of the Davenport river front; 3.5 x 8 feet in size.

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1975 map;purplish ink; appears was once cataloged in DPL map collections - For more information about this collection, please consult with a Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center staff member.

Scope and Contents This is a set of sixteen original depositions related to District Court cases in the 1860s. Most of the documents have been microfilmed with the rest of the papers and are available for viewing in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center. Two sources were used to double check the names and case numbers involved: District Court Calendar Scott County IA [SC 977.769 DIS] and Numberical Index of District Court Cases Found on Microfilm 1857-1898 [SC 977.769 SCO].Case...

Scope and Contents This image collection is from the Des Moines Register & Tribune newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa. There is limited identification. Subjects include:dredging the Mississippi River in 1929; Rock Island Arsenal female employees ca World War I;Davenport schools student activities from Davenport High School 1951-52; Davenport West High School 1974; St. Katharine's School 1949; St. Ambrose College 1953; Davenport Art Gallery 1963; Dear...

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This collection contains approximately 30 black and white photographs of people believed to be from the DeWitt, Iowa area.

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This collection contains handwritten diaries of local resident Lettie Barber for the years 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911; They mention visiting African-American families, tenement on Tenth Street.

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This 3x5" daily pocket diary documents daily events in Keokuk County pioneer life such as farming and timber activities, weather, neighbors, farm animals, etc. Copies of Newton's other diaries dating 1858-1870s can be found at State Historical Society of Iowa and possibly Keota, IA library. See also the Iowa Journal of History and Politics "Pioneer Experiences in Keokuk County" July 1954 pages 327-342.