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A Veteran’s View: Joan McAdams
Since 2004, libraries across the world have organized events about freedom and issues that matter to their communities during the month of September. This grassroots project favors free over fee, public over private, and voices over silence. Throughout the week of … Continue reading
An Invitation – Part 2
Have you ever pushed that button and regretted it?? Well, I did that today with our invitation. Here is the rest of the information! Who is Invited? Genealogists When? Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. Where? Richardson-Sloane … Continue reading
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An Invitation
Find all the leaves (and maybe a couple of nuts??) on your family tree at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collection Center’s Fall Genealogy Night. Spend this special evening with other genealogists and access the best collection of genealogy records and historic … Continue reading
Dred Scott Slept Here
In 1833, John Emerson, an army physician, moved to Fort Armstrong on the Mississippi River Island now called Arsenal Island. With him, Dr. Emerson brought his slave, Dred Scott, whom he had purchased in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Emerson became … Continue reading
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The September Project
Since 2004, libraries across the world have organized events about freedom and issues that matter to their communities during the month of September. This grassroots project favors free over fee, public over private, and voices over silence. Throughout the week of … Continue reading
A Place to Tap Your Feet – The Col Ballroom
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a hundred times (how many of us heard that saying growing up?), the early Quad City Germans loved to sing and parade through town. It wasn’t just local Germans truthfully. When Davenport held special … Continue reading
The Ephemera Files: Labor News
We hope you had a wonderfully relaxing Labor Day holiday. I took the opportunity to think about what we have in our Special Collections ephemera files that pertains to the labor movement or to local labor organizations and found two … 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
Davenport’s Contemporary Club
The Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center welcomes donations that enrich our local history collection, particularly from organizations that have thrived within our Quad City communities. Recently a donation of Contemporary Club papers came to us. The Contemporary Club was formed in … Continue reading
A Veteran’s View: Robert Rubley
In 2001, our own Karen, along with several volunteers, began interviewing local residents for a World War II/Korean War Oral History Project. Our Oral History Collection now includes the war-related stories of 74 veterans, former civilian workers, and even a war bride or two. … Continue reading
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Tagged Oral History, Robert Rubley, Veteran, World War II/Korean War Oral History Project
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