Closed for Memorial Day
The Davenport Public Library will be closed
Monday, May 27, 2013
For Memorial Day
We will reopen on Tuesday, May 28, at 9:30.
RSSC’s Featured Image
- How did people keep cool before air-conditioning was invented?
In the 1890s, they used the River!
Events Calendar
For your convenience, please explore our page of upcoming genealogical and local history events in the Quad-City area.
Be sure to mark these dates down in your own calendar!
-
Recent Posts
Pages
Archives
Categories
Links of Interest
More DPL Blogs!
Tag Archives: Alice French
The Weekly Outlook: D.N. Richardson and Ads of Interest
THE WEEKLY OUTLOOK — DEVOTED TO HOME & OUTING LIFE, LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC & THE DRAMA (Volume 1 — Number 8, August 29, 1896) NOTABLES A fine lithographic portrait of D. N. Richardson graces page one of the Outlook this week, … Continue reading
Posted in Local History
Tagged Alice French, D. N. Richardson, newspapers, The Weekly Outlook
Leave a comment
The Weekly Outlook: French, Terpsichore, and Night Blooms
THE WEEKLY OUTLOOK - DEVOTED TO HOME & OUTING LIFE, LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC & THE DRAMAc (Volume 1 Number 6 – August 15, 1896) NOTABLES: The cover of today’s edition is graced with an image of local novelist Alice French. … Continue reading
A Fine Day for a Dedication
Have you ever wondered if children of the nineteenth century groaned when it was time to return to school after summer break? If they did grumble about such things the week of September 10, 1866 would have been the time–back … Continue reading
Ode to Oakdale
One of the difficulties in locating death records in Iowa is that they did not exist prior to 1880.* This means that roughly fifty years worth of ancestors passed away in our state without leaving behind that vital (if you’ll pardon … Continue reading
The Art of (Alice) French Cooking
We are about half way through the season of Holiday Feasting, where Thanksgiving dinners (and the leftovers) have mercifully worn off and many of us begin to look forward to the next traditional fancy dinner with joy or with dread—depending, … Continue reading
Posted in Local History
Tagged Alice French, Christmas dinner, Davenport, Iowa, Teddy Roosevelt
4 Comments
The Importance of Women
Without women, the Davenport Public Library would not be here today, and this space would be taken up with a lament on the city’s shocking illiteracy rates. Sure, Andrew Carnegie was the one who challenged Davenporters to vote for a … Continue reading