Showing Collections: 221 - 230 of 420
Collection
Identifier: MSS 370
Abstract
Luella Hallberg, Augustana College class of 1940, served as class representative and author of the alumni newsletter. The Luella Hallberg papers contains a packet from Augustana College’s 1995 alumni weekend; a spring 1995 alumni newsletter; letters from Augustana College alumni, 1995-1996; and material, 1994, apparently taken from a scrapbook.
Dates:
1994-1996
Collection
Identifier: MSS 231
Abstract
The Handel Oratorio Society is a choral society composed of Quad City community members and local college students. It began in 1880 under the name Augustana Handel Oratorio Society and was founded by former Augustana College president, Olof Olsson. The Society is most famous for its Christmas season performance of George Frederic Handel's Messiah, which was first performed 12 April 1881. Charles Wuorinen's piece, The Celestial...
Dates:
1880-2004 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 324
Abstract
Grant Hanson was born on March 14, 1911, in Sioux City, Iowa. He attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and graduated in 1933. Hanson then married in August 1941, and continued his education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He attended the library school there from 1940 until 1942. Hanson worked for the Augustana College Library, and then earned his master in library sciences at the University of Michigan in 1944. In 1945, Hanson became the head librarian of...
Dates:
circa 1898-1928
Collection
Identifier: MSS 327
Abstract
The Harper House Hotel was built by Benjamin Harper, a Rock Island businessman. There had been a hotel on the land on which he built the structure since 1846. The five-story brick building cost $100,000 to build and opened on February 21, 1871. Harper included fire escapes in every room – a first for hotels in the Midwest. Visitors proclaimed it one of the most lavish hotels west of Chicago. The Harper House Hotel was purchased from Harper in 1907, and passed through the hands of three...
Dates:
1903
Collection
Identifier: MSS 154
Abstract
Tom Robin Harris was born in Nampa, Idaho. He attended Boise Junior College before earning his bachelor’s and master’s of music at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He then attended the University of Michigan for his doctorate. Harris also studied at the North German Organ Academy near Bremen, Germany. In 1968, Harris became a professor of organ and harpsichord at Augustana College. He was the school’s official organist, as well as the organist for the Handel Oratorio Society and the...
Dates:
1987-1991
Collection
Identifier: MSS 308
Abstract
Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. (1825-1893) was an American politician who served four terms as mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1879 until 1887. In 1888-1889 he took a trip around the world, an account of which he published in a book entitled A Race with the Sun. This collection consists of a scrapbook containing Harrison's newspaper columns about a portion of the trip.
Dates:
1888
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2
Abstract
The Tufve Nilsson Hasselquist papers, 1840-1988 and undated, primarily documents the personal and professional life of the second president of Augustana College, Tufve Nilsson Hasselquist. Hasselquist was born in Sweden in 1816 and traveled to America in 1852. Before assuming the presidency of the college in 1863, Hasselquist was the president of the Augustana Synod, the editor of a Swedish-language newspaper, and a pastor. At Augustana College, Hasselquist oversaw many changes to the school...
Dates:
1840-1988 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 27-(images)
Abstract
John Henry Hauberg was a prolific researcher and photographer active in the Quad Cities area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The John Henry Hauberg glass plate images, 1880-1947 and undated, contains roughly 8,000 glass plate images photographed by John Hauberg over the course of his life.
Dates:
1880-1947 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 27
Abstract
John Henry Hauberg was a businessman, philanthropist, civic organizer, researcher, and photographer active in Rock Island and the Quad Cities area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hauberg and his wife, Susanne Denkmann Hauberg, were very active in the Quad Cities community, serving on many advisory boards and organizing dozens of philanthropic initiatives. Hauberg was also an avid photographer, capturing some 100,000 photographs over the course of his life. The John Henry Hauberg...
Dates:
1773-1998 and undated; (bulk 1857-1955)
Collection
Identifier: MSS 390
Abstract
D. Hawes and Son was a retail establishment located at the corner of Washington and Illinois Streets in downtown Rock Island, Illinois. This collection consists of a single item: the ledger of D. Hawes & Son, 1869-1871, labeled "Invoice of Stock of the Retail Establishment."
Dates:
1869-1871
