Items such as photographic images, journals, collections of letters, scrapbooks, ration coupons, etc. would provide future generations a more complete understanding of life in the Quad-Cities and abroad during this era. This collection will be archived in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center of the Davenport Public Library. We are looking for people who lived in the Quad-City area any time between 1940 and 1955. If you wish to participate, the Project Coordinator will contact you with a few brief questions regarding your biography and activities during those years, then you will sit down with an individual to tell your stories, which will be tape recorded. After the taped interview has been transcribed, you will have an opportunity to check it over, make any corrections, and then receive a copy of the tape and final transcript for you and your family.
Prepayment is required.
All funds raised will be used for purchase of the 1930 Federal Census for Iowa upon its release in 2002. To register contact the Davenport Public Library Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center at 326.7902. To insure availability of computers and microfilm readers and printers registration will be limited to the first 30 paid registrations. The Davenport Public Library s Teen Board announced that they are sponsoring a Teen Writing Contest entitled Living In The Present . Contest entry forms can be picked up NOW .