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Tag Archives: buildings
Reading Colors Your World: Colorized Postcards
This year’s Summer Reading Program theme is Reading Colors Your World. We found some beautifully colorized postcards in our collection and thought it would be interesting to compare them to the black & white versions of the same image. We … Continue reading
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Tagged buildings, colorized, Postcards
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Happy Anniversary Davenport City Hall!
Last week we posted a selection of close-up images of a local building that is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its dedication this week. That building is Davenport City Hall. From the opening of the eleven construction bids on December … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, buildings, City Government, City Hall, Davenport City Hall, Davenport Police Department, Davenport Police Historic Association, J. W. Ross, John W. Ross, Public Works
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Historic Places: “Riverview”
This month Gilda’s Club of the Quad Cities, the non-profit Cancer Support Community, announced they were moving out of the iconic mansion at 1234 East River Drive and would be relocating and expanding to 2 locations: Genesis West Campus in … Continue reading
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Tagged abner davison, buildings, Historic Houses and Sites, Organizations--Contemporary Club, riverview
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Main Street Library’s 50th Anniversary Series: Photo Gallery
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Posted in Library, Local History
Tagged buildings, construction, Davenport Public Library, Downtown Davenport, Edward Durell Stone
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Build A Better Davenport: The Hunzinger Construction Company
Summer is upon us and, with it, the Davenport Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, this year titled “Build a Better World.” Here at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center we have many resources that fit well with this theme, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged #buildabetterdavenport, #historyholders, Build a Better World, buildings, construction, Hunzinger, Summer Reading Program 2017
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Mapping Early Churches
Early Davenport had a lot of two things: bars and churches. It would be difficult to document all the places that might have offered our citizens refreshments of an alcoholic nature prior to 1880; many of them didn’t exist long enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged buildings, churches, city directories, Davenport (Iowa), Maps
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