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The VHS subseries contains two categories of recordings: Personal (1984–1998) and Professional (1983-2009 and undated). Professional recordings include footage from Broadway productions of The Boy From Oz, other theatrical productions, and Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Television Specials, Production Materials, and Publicity.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Henry Hauberg papers, 1773-1998 and undated (bulk 1857-1955), primarily consists of the personal and professional papers of John Henry Hauberg. Personal papers include wills, deeds, financial records, land records, correspondence, and information on Hauberg's private library. In addition the collection includes papers related to Hauberg's civic and organizational activities as well as records related to the Denkmann-Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company.Hauberg was very interested...

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The Rock Island, IL subseries, 1893, 1905-1930 and undated, focuses primarily on the history of Rock Island. Included are reproductions of maps from various time periods, as well as images of significant sites--Black Hawk's village, the Sauk Council Lodge, Native American corn hills and some early settlers' residences. Also included are images of Vandruff's Island and Augustana College, among other locations.

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The Trails subseries, 1912-1922 and undated, contains images of people on the many Native American trails, some of which Hauberg discovered, in and around the Quad Cities.

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The Local series, 1889-1936 and undated, comprises images of various locations within a twenty-mile radius of Rock Island, Illinois. Predominant are images of landscapes, farms, and street scenes.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Local organization publications, 1880-1995 and undated, consists of material produced by local Quad Cities organizations, such as clubs, fraternal orders, unions, committees, and other groups. Materials primarily include pamphlets, brochures, letters, event programs, commemorative programs, clippings, and other items. As with the preceding subseries, content related to individual organizations is very slight, and multiple organizations’ materials have been arranged alphabetically with single...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Augustana College academic papers and theses, 1877-2024 and undated, contains academic papers, master's theses, sermons, speeches, undergraduate papers submitted for academic credit, prize winning papers, independent propjects, and proceedings of the annual Celebration of Learning.Note: Papers and theses of Augustana faculty and alumni are included in this collection only in those cases where no separate manuscript collection has been established for them. Student...

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The United Sunday School Boys Band subseries, 1909-1928 and undated, predominantly consistspredominantly of images of the band members on local and Big Hikes. Most of these are images of the boys at various locations and cooking on campfires. Also included are images of the band at performances around the Quad City area.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains papers related to businesses in the Quad Cities area other than agricultural implement manufacturers, banks, or photographers. Materials include advertisements, pamphlets, flyers, brochures, souvenir booklets, instruction manuals, catalogs, customer incentive gifts (usually calendars or notebooks), and, rarely, photographs or correspondence. Materials have been arranged alphabetically by company name. As a general rule, content related to individual companies is very...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Kent Olson papers, 1979-2012 (bulk 1980-1989), contains documents, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to the purchase of artwork in the Olson-Brandelle North American Indian Art Collection. These consist of inventory sheets with an overview of each piece of art, photographs of the art and the artists, prize ribbons, receipts, checks, brochures, news clippings, magazine articles, invitations to exhibitions, certificates of authenticity, books and photocopies of chapters from them,...