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Happy Anniversary to Us!
Primary Selections from Special Collections is a year old today! That’s 52 Images o’ the Week prepped and captioned, decades of newspaper microfilm threaded onto machines, many boxes of old records dusted off and brought into the light, plenty of judicious … Continue reading
Happy Anniversary to the Library of Tomorrow!
If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that we use it to share snippets of local history. We hope you’ll forgive us if we take the opportunity this week to share some brief history of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Davenport, Davenport Public Library, Edward Durell Stone, Iowa
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Announcing the Quad-Cities Civil War Legacy Conference!
Have you ever wondered about the part the Quad Cities played in the Civil War? If not, you really should be wondering. It is an absolutely fascinating subject! To help explore this subject more deeply the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Quad-Cities Civil War Legacy Conference
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Labor Day Closing
Our library will be closed this Monday, September 1, for Labor Day. If you were planing a Labor Day weekend trip to see us, we will be open Saturday, August 30 for your researching pleasure. You could spend the next two days … Continue reading
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Memorial Day Closing
Our library will be closed this Monday in honor of Memorial Day. We are still open tomorrow, though, so come on in and stock up on genealogy and local history before 5:30!
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Now Available! An Online Davenport Newspaper Index!
We are excited to finally be able to offer our in-house local newspaper index online. This is a subject index for events and articles of local interest from the Quad-City Times, the Leader, the River Cities Reader, and other area … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Library, Local History
Tagged Marriage Announcements, Newspaper Index, obituaries
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Just Shelved– Pride in our Hometowns: Portraits of Iowa
Subtitled “Great places to spend the day—or a lifetime,” this photograph-rich book gives both historical and current accounts of twenty-five towns and cities across the state of Iowa. From small (Adel, Pella, Woodbine) to large (Clinton, Mason City, Sioux City), … Continue reading
Just Shelved—East Georgia Settlers Family Sketches
Eighty-eight members of the East Georgia Genealogical Society submitted 317 biographical sketches of family members for this 728-page volume, but this resource is far above the usual unsubstantiated family stories about Third-Great Aunt Bessie from Elbert County. The main person … Continue reading
May Day! May Day!
May 1st is May Day – traditionally a day for children to surprise friends with special little baskets of flowers, popcorn and treats. The phrase MayDay also is recognized as a cry for help (from the French term m’aidez), which … Continue reading
Happy National Library Week!
Why not celebrate by getting a library card, or renewing the one you have? And while you’re doing that, why not take a look around? Ask the librarians a few questions that have been bugging you–we love it when you … Continue reading
