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Black Hawk Hiking Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 303
Abstract
The Black Hawk Hiking Club Records, 1918-2004 and undated, contain meeting minutes, membership records, bulletins, scrapbooks, slides, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings and photographs. The Black Hawk Hiking Club was formed in 1920 as the Black Hawk Prairie Club, whose purpose was to promote outdoor recreation in the form of walks, outings, camping, and canoeing. With the election of John H. Hauberg as the club’s first president, the name was changed to the Black Hawk Hiking Club in 1923...
Dates:
1918-2004 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Collection of early merchants' papers related to Indigenous affairs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 100
Abstract
The collection of early merchants' papers related to Indigenous affairs, 1816-1838, contains letters, indentures, and other papers created by three early merchants active in the Upper Mississippi Valley region: Thomas Forsyth, Russell Farnham, and Edward Kilbourn. Included in the collection are several letters to Col. George Davenport, indentures marking the sale of Native American lands in the "Half-Breed Tract" of Iowa to Edward Kilbourn and Henry S. Austin in 1838, and other documents...
Dates:
1816-1838
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
John Henry Hauberg glass plate images
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
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Trinity Lutheran Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 407
Abstract
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1912 in Moline, Illinois, and continues to operate as of 2017. At the time of its founding, Trinity was one of the only English-speaking churches chartered with the Augustana Synod, a Swedish branch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church has strong historical ties to Augustana College, with its first three pastors having graduated from Augustana Theological Seminary and the precursor to its Sunday School program having been founded by...
Dates:
1854-2014 and undated; Majority of material found in ( 1912-2014)
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections