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Category Archives: Library
The More Things Change . . .
On June 21, 1923, the Davenport Public Library formally opened the new addition to its Main Street location. The eighteen-year old building—the largest Carnegie library west of the Mississippi at the time of its construction—was already in sore need of … Continue reading
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Tagged Davenport Public Library, Eastern Avenue Library
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Closed for Memorial Day, Open for New Hours
The Davenport Public Library will be closed on Memorial Day. Please join us in remembering those who gave their lives so that we could have the opportunity to live ours in freedom. Scott County Soldiers’ Monument We will be open … Continue reading
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Tagged Memorial Day, New Hours, Scott County Soldiers' Monument
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Beginning Genealogy Workshop!
Genealogy is very popular on TV this month. NBC is offering Who Do You Think You Are?, which features celebrities researching their family history and their family’s connections to historical events. And PBS just wrapped up its four-episode run of Faces … Continue reading
Defective, Dependant, and Delinquent
AncestryLibrary, the library version of the popular subscription database Ancestry.com, posts new resources almost daily. On February 7, 2010 one of the special supplemental census schedules for 1880 was posted – the Defective, Dependent and Delinquent Classes. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Defective Dependent and Delinquent, Federal Census, Genealogy
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Come to our Open House Putti Party!
As our loyal readers know, in 1905, W.C. Putnam generously donated to our library a reproduction of a frieze designed by Donatello in the 1400s. The frieze, which hung in the library’s auditorium for decades, was removed when the original … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackhawk Hotel, Carnegie Library, frieze, W. C. Putnam
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More Tales of the Census: Special Schedules
Population was not the only information the United States government was interested in collecting during the decennial federal censuses. Non-population questions were equally important – and for we historians equally interesting! Over the years, these censuses included mortality, social statistics … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture Schedules, Federal Census, Genealogy, Iowa, Mortality Schedules, Special Schedules
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Tales of the Census
Soon, we will all be part of history. How, you wonder? In April of 2010, the new decennial United States Federal Census will be arriving in our mailboxes. The government will be mailing the questionnaire, as it is still not … Continue reading
Looking Back, Moving Forward
We at the Special Collections Center spend a lot of time searching the past. For the first post of 2010, we thought we’d take the time (no pun intended) to reflect on our own accomplishments over the past decade. We’re … Continue reading
Library Holiday Closings!
Our Special Collections Center (and the rest of the Davenport Public Library System as well) will be closed December 24, December 25, December 31 and January 1—that’s Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. Otherwise, we … Continue reading
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The Annual Musical Interlude
Our staff here at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center celebrate the winter holidays each year by mailing cards to our wonderful volunteers, exchanging small gifts, enjoying enough chocolate to put the Hershey corporation firmly in the black for the year, … Continue reading
