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    This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #Archi This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #ArchivesHandwriting 

These are handwritten monthly reports to the Davenport City Council from the City Sexton. The reports include each individual's name, date & time of burial, age, residence of deceased, and the lot number upon which they are buried. 

The examples pictured here were recorded by the following:
Moses Houghton, April 1857
Anton Brown, January 1860
Nicholas Krambeck, April 1863
Fritz Kann, January 1864
John Rasmus, January 1882
William Sass, May 1903

These reports from 1857-1914 have been indexed on our website: DavenportLibrary.com -- Genealogy & History -- Special Collections Indexes

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From Accession No. 2023-15: Gerald Packer Collection

This collection consists of a photograph album from the World War II era compiled by Gerald G.I. Packer featuring areas and comrades he served with during his Army training and service including Australia, New Guinea, Japan and the Philippine Islands. Correspondence includes two V-Mails dated January 1944. Realia includes Japanese paper currency, insignias and two patches, dog tag, empty boxes that formerly held medals, and one box inscribed United States of America.

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    This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #Arch This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is  #ArchivesOnTheRoad !

Scott County sectional map and advertisements from Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa, published in 1912 by the Iowa Publishing Company.

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From 1989-12 Newcomb Loom Company Records -  This collection is made up of instructional materials pertaining to the looms produced by the company as well as some promotional items. Instructions on weaving four popular patterns: Dog Tracks, Queen's Delight or Mary Simmons, Monk's Belt, Diamond with Stripe; also Anderson Weave, Hollywood Weave, and Honeysuckle. 

More info: libguides.davenportlibrary.com/newcombloom

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    This month's #archiveshashtagparty theme is #archi This month's #archiveshashtagparty theme is #archivescampfire !

This collection from "Nurse Iodine" Arlene Jens contains videocassette and 16 mm film of Camp Fire Girls Camp SES-KO-ME from 1968, and a blue binder with script for the film. Also includes brief history of the camp site at Allen's Grove, newspaper clippings, pictures, brochures, pamphlets, and a few personal items.

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    This month's #archiveshashtagparty theme is #archi This month's #archiveshashtagparty theme is #archivesgoforgold - Gayle P. Hopkins (1941-2016) was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Track Team and broke Jesse Owen's long-jump record at the 1964 Drake Relays. 

In 1959-1960, his senior year at Davenport High School, Gayle "Hoppy" Hopkins received four major letters (Gold D) and the Sportsmanship Award. He was captain of the 3 sports teams: track, football, and basketball. He won the state long jump title in 1959 and high jump title in 1960. He was also elected Vice-President of the Student Council and Spinster's Spree King.

Hopkins attended Trinidad Junior College in Colorado and the University of Arizona, and later earned master's degree from San Francisco State University and a PhD from Clermont College. "Doc Hop" returned to the University of Arizona in 1982 as an Assistant/Associate Athletic Director, retiring in 2010.

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Keating Glaspe Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Keating Glaspell was born in Davenport, Iowa, on July 1,1876. Explore this updated resource guide to learn more about her illustrious career and her life in Davenport: https://libguides.davenportlibrary.com/glaspell #onthisday #susanglaspell #pulitzerprize #authors #writers #playwrights #iowahistory #specialcollections #archives #libguides #librariesofinstagram #davenportlibrary #davenportreads #davenportiowa #quadcities #tagtheqc #qcthatswhere #provincetownplayers
    This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #Arch This month's  #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #ArchivesGames!

From accession no. 2011-15: digitized images (cartes de visite) of the 1866 Baseball team The Wapellos from Rock Island. The photographs were taken by George Solander, the first baseman who was a photographer for Newberry & Solanders in Rock Island. The players are wearing their uniforms, which were blue Turkish pants, white linen shirts, belts with the team name “WAPELLO BBC”, and blue caps trimmed with red and topped with a white button. 

The Rock Island Wapello baseball club was named after Fox tribe chief Wapello (1787-1842), who signed treaties at Fort Armstrong in 1822 and 1832. The team members were: Charles Robert Chamberlin (catcher), William H. Dart (fielder), Stiles Eggleston (fielder), Edgar Gay Gleim (3rd base), Jim Hodges (3rd base/fielder), Phil Mitchell (pitcher/fielder), Charles Platt (pitcher), Harry Platt (2nd base), George Solander (1st base), Mansfield M. Sturgeon (pitcher/shortstop) and Mack Weiser (fielder).

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    #ArchivesWomenInSTEM Accession No. 2009-20 is a #ArchivesWomenInSTEM 

Accession No. 2009-20 is a collection of images taken in 1911 and 1912 of the Davenport Hospital, nurses home, and staff members. The Davenport Hospital and Training School for Nurses was located on what is now East 29th Street near Brady. (140 South Avenue)

Sara Elizabeth Foulks was born on October 12, 1880, on the family farm in Burlington Township, New Jersey, the second of four sisters. She and two of her sisters attended Normal School. She later attended Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, graduating in 1907. According to the family story, she and several other doctors started the Davenport Hospital and Training School for Nurses in 1908. 

Dr. Sara E. Foulks appears to have made Davenport, Iowa her home from 1911 until 1924. Sara headed the American Women’s Hospitals in Athens, Greece in the early 1920’s - a volunteer effort to aid Greek refugees returning to Greece from Turkey. Sara spent some years working at Elwyn Training School outside Philadelphia. She retired about 1950 and died in 1962.

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