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DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
The man pictured above is wanted by the Davenport Public Library for appearing in our collections without a name!
If you can identify this 1884 Davenport Police Officer, please call or e-mail us so we can
bring him to justiceadd his name to our files!Events Calendar
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Tag Archives: Recipes
Novel Cuisine
It’s a given in the Quad-Cities that if an organization or business is around long enough, it will produce a cookbook. Just look at the 641.5 shelves in our Special Collections Center and you’ll see decades worth of church cookbooks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Wittenmyer, Cookbooks, Davenport Public Library, Novel Cuisine, Recipes
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We’re Cooking Now!
Although it’s well known—or should be—that our Special Collections Center archives the works of local authors, it appears that few of our patrons realize that this collection policy includes cookbooks produced by local organizations, schools, and businesses. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cookbooks, Margaret Pillion, Recipes, Trinity Cathedral
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