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  • Preserving Local Music: Louis Bellson in the Fredlo Collection

    Preserving Local Music: Louis Bellson in the Fredlo Collection

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    Davenport’s Historic Fredlo Studio Shows its Roots Through an Historic Undocumented Jazz Recording

    In May 2023, Special Collections staff applied and were awarded the State Historical Society of Iowa’s Historical Resource Development Program (HRDP) Grant. With this grant, we strove to digitize and make the Fredlo Recording Studios Collection accessible. The project was completed in 2025. Now, we are ready to share this collection of Quad Cities music history through stories about individuals, groups/bands, ensembles, and other unique contributions.

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  • Reality-Bending Novels

    Reality-Bending Novels

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    Are you a mood reader? Or do you have a list of books you want to read that you stick to? I definitely fall in the mood reader category, but every season, and sometimes in specific months, I find myself gravitating towards a certain type of books. For example, in January, I want to read time travel! As a result, I have gathered a list below of reality-bending novels published in 2025.

    As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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