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Annie Wittenmyer and the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home: Additional Resources

Annie Wittenmyer and the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home

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Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center

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Email:

specialcollections (at) davenportlibrary (dot) com

Phone:

(563) 326-7902

Address:

321 N Main Street

Davenport, IA 52801-1490

Hours:

Mondays: 9am-8pm

Tue - Sat: 9am-5:30pm

Sundays and Holidays: CLOSED

Historic Preservation

National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Documentation 82002641
Includes two nomination forms:
Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Annie Wittenmyer Complex, Buildings, 1982
Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home Historic District Amendment, Historic District, 2005

IOWA BIB - IA History & Culture Online Bibliography

Foremothers: Annie Turner Wittenmyer
Article by Patrice Kay Beam. Iowa Woman. 1992. Vol. 12 No. 3. p. 4
Spare Children, 1900-1945; Inmates of Orphanages as Subjects of Research in Medicine and in the Social Sciences in America
Includes the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station and Iowa Soldiers' Orphans (Annie Wittenmyer) Home, Davenport. Dissertation/Thesis by Bernadine Courtright Barr. 1992. Ph.D. Stanford University.

Web Links

"'Tis a Model Institution-Its Rise and Growth" by A.P. Doe, The Daily Times September 29, 1900
Via IAGenWeb - Scott County