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from our Archive & Manuscripts Collections

1989-05 Scott County Sunday School Association records. Minute books dated 9 May1890-19 Feb1918 and one enrollment book, 24 Sep 1901-21 Oct1 923; microfilmed - 2 copies. 4 bound volumes. Rg. 37 Sec. 1

2004-79 Auxiliary of the Northwest Davenport Turner Association. Minute record books 1929-1985; bd mtg minutes 1958-1988;membership records 1907-1960's;past presidents club records 1955-1983; Treasurer records 1973-1988; constitution & by-laws 1974; resolutions /obits;photos from albums

Ephemera - Organizations

Ephemera - Organizations - Davenport Turngemeinde

Davenport Turngemeinde. "Davenport Turner". Vol. IV No. 12, Vol. V No. 6. [Nov 1925, May 1926] Periodical.

Books from the RiverShare Catalog

"God is listening only to the English tongue" : anti-German sentiment in Davenport and Scott County, Iowa, 1848-1919 by Brenda Schaeffer Hansen.
Call Number: SC 977.769 SCHAE BRE
Publication Date: 2016
Cities of refuge : German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945 by Lori Gemeiner Bihler
Call Number: SC 305.892 BIHLE
ISBN: 1438468873
Publication Date: 2018
County Sunday School Association records [microform].
Call Number: SC MICROFILM 268.5 COUNT SUN
Publication Date: 1987
Davenport illustrated : Saengerfest Souvenir, July 1898 / Eighteenth National Saengerfest of the Saengerbund of the Northwest.
Call Number: SC CLOSED STACKS 917.7769 DAV
Publication Date: 1898
Ernst Otto : a special collection of works from the famous composer, musician and teacher. by Otto, Ernst, 1865-1939.
Call Number: SC 781.63 Ott
Publication Date: 2000
German-Iowan studies : selected essays by William Roba
Call Number: SC 977.7 ROBA WIL
ISBN: 0820452874
Publication Date: 2004
German Settlers of Iowa: Their Descendants and European Ancestors, Third Edition by Margaret Krug Palen
ISBN: 1556139810
Hero Street, U. S. A. by Marc Wilson
Call Number: SC 940.5467 WIL
ISBN: 9780806140124
Publication Date: 2009-05-15
Hero Street USA [videorecording] : Silvis, IL.
Call Number: DVD 940.5404 Her
Publication Date: 2006?
Three programs about the eight Mexican-American soldiers whose families emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico around 1910. These eight boys died in World War II or Korea while fight for the United States. The families came to Rock Island to work in the rail yards in Silvis, Illinois. The street that many of them settled on w as renamed Hero Street in their honor and because according to the Department of Defense there is no other street of comparable size (one block) that has sent as many men and women to serve in the armed forces than this block of approximately twenty-five homes.
Hispanic Military Heroes by Virgil Fernandez
Call Number: SC 355.008 Fer
ISBN: 0967587611
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Home Alive in '45 by John R. Cervantes
Call Number: SC 940.5481 Cer
ISBN: 0942568303
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Jews of Tri-Cities
Call Number: SC 296.0977 Jew
Publication Date: 1912
Reform advocate (Iowa edition)
Letters home to Hero Street [videorecording] by Rundle, Tammy. Rundle, Kelly.
Call Number: SC DVD 929.2 LETTERS
Publication Date: 2015
River of steel/River of sweat : Hispanic community in Muscatine, Iowa by Michael Huchison
Call Number: SC 977.768 HUTCH
Publication Date: 1988
Schuetzenpark : Davenport's lost playland, 1870-1923.
Call Number: SC 977.769 SCH
Publication Date: 1999
Schutzenpark revival 25. June 1995 : "an afternoon to remember". by German American Heritage Center
Call Number: SC 977.769 SCH
Publication Date: 1995
Schutzen Park [videorecording] : Davenport's lost playland
Call Number: SC VC 977.769 SCH
Publication Date: 1997
Stories from the barrio [videorecording] : Quad Cities Mexican heritage
Call Number: SC DVD 977.769004682 STORIES
Publication Date: 2011
Video documentary on the lives of Mexican immigrants and their children in the Quad Cities in the early part of the 20th century. Includes personal narrative interviews with 2nd- and 3rd-generation members of families who lived and grew up in the neighborhoods of Cook's Point, Holy City, Silvis Yards, and other parts of the Quad Cities.