The Special Collections department of the Thomas Tredway Library, Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., has received a $3,094 grant to digitize materials from the John Henry Hauberg papers. This grant was awarded by the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), National Archives and Records Administration.
John Henry Hauberg (1869-1955) was a researcher and photographer active in the Quad City area in the early 20th century. He spent nearly all of his spare time researching and photographing topics of historical interest to the Quad Cities and Illinois, and he compiled some 150 unpublished volumes of Illinois history over the course of his life. The hallmark of Hauberg's collection is his photography, which includes approximately 8,000 glass plate images. This project will target 1,500 of the most historically significant glass plate images related to Native American culture and landscapes (primarily focusing on local Sauk/Fox/Meskwaki tribes), Quad Cities scenes, the Rock Island Arsenal, Black Hawk State Historic Site, and the Denkmann-Hauberg West End Settlement in Rock Island. Many of these photographs are entirely unprecedented in the historical record.
). For information on project developments, accessing the materials, or any other questions, please contact Samantha Crisp, Special Collections Librarian, at 309-794-7317 or specialcollections@augustana.edu.
