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The Colorful Wedding Announcement of Miss Helen Watts
Included in our Hostetler Photograph Collections is a set of glass negatives showing the former Miss Helen Kelsey Watts in her wedding gown, in which she married Mr. Homer Brown Payne. While researching these images, we located a wedding announcement, … Continue reading
Posted in Local History
Tagged Genealogy, Helen Kelsey Watts, Homer Brown Payne, Local History, Newspaper Index, newspapers, Photographs, Research, Resources, Weddings
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Throwback Thursday: The Quad-Cities USA Campaign
While adding items to our Ephemera collection, we found brochures for the Quad Cities U.S.A. campaign—and we couldn’t resist sharing! ________________ “A typical Quad-Cities resident lives in one community, works in another and shops in a third city. It’s urban, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ephemera, Local History, Music, Quad-Cities, Quad-Cities USA Campaign, Throwback Thursday, Tourism
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Library Leadership: Directors We Have Known
In honor of National Library Week, we thought we’d take a look at those who have led the Davenport Public Library over the past 111 years. Even with this brief amount of information, it’s interesting to note how the education, … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Local History
Tagged biography, C. Daniel Wilson, directors, Edna Geisler, Elizabeth Martin, Grace Delphine Rose, Grace Shellenberger, Harold Goldstein, Judith Ellis, Kay Runge, KennethWayne Thompson, LaWanda Roudebush, Library staff, Marilla Waite Freeman, Meg Sarff, Oswald H. Joerg, Stella V. Seybold
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A Davenport First: Green River Soda
As we wait (im)patiently in our department for winter to bloom into spring, we linger a little longer over the warm weather pictures and the senior yearbooks we pull for patrons. And sometimes our lingering leads to a blog topic—especially … Continue reading
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Tagged beverages, businesses, Davenport High School Blackhawk Yearbook, Davenport High School Bulletin, Green River Soda, Richard C. Jones
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A Pencil-Drawn Snapshot in Time: City Engineering Department Survey Books
Many of our blog posts in the past year have involved the Civil War period, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the event. One Civil War era primary resource in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections archives is the City of Davenport … Continue reading
Posted in Local History
Tagged Camp Kearney, Camp McClellan, Engineering Survey Books, Native Americans, Sioux Tribes
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Marshal-ing our Resources
Recently, we explained how we uncovered that the man we—and everyone else—had thought was the first City Marshal of Davenport . . . wasn’t. But this had us researching what the City Marshal—a position that no longer exists—originally did, and when he stopped … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Local History
Tagged Chief of Police, City Marshal, D. H. Severance, Davenport City Council Papers, Davenport Police Department, Deputy City Marshal, James W. Means, Resources
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Library Closed this Friday
The Davenport Public Library—and therefore our Special Collections Center—will be CLOSED on Friday, March 29, 2013. We WILL be open our regular hours Saturday, March 30!
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Genealogy Night is Coming!
Have you been looking for your Great-great grandfather’s gravesite for so long, you suspect he’s still alive somewhere, snickering at your efforts to find him? We in the Special Collections Center of the Davenport Public Library understand. And we are … Continue reading
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Davenporters of Note: Lottie Boies Clapp
Women’s History Month provides reminders of the importance of the contributions of women to our present society, culture, and communities. Many women did this by filling traditional roles, but others took on non-traditional, necessary tasks—and some of them were the … Continue reading
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Tagged Clapp Mortuary, Davenport (Iowa), Lottie Boies Clapp, Women's History
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