W. 11th & Bluff

A bit of library ephemera, this postcard-sized slip of paper was likely used in the late 1970s or early 1980s to promote Carnegie-Stout'...

Carnegie-Stout Public Library's remarkable grandfather clock, a longcase Flötenuhr (flute or organ clock), was made in Germany circa 183...

From Horse Education by Thomas J. Murray (1890) at HathiTrust : On the adjoining page will be found a good likeness of the celebrated horse...

"There's gold in them thar' hills!" Dubuque Iowa's Forgotten Gold by Peter Netzel is ready to check out from Carnegi...

Carnegie-Stout Public Library's book press appears to be about 120 years old. Screw presses are used for bookbinding. They help keep the...

Thanks to a gift from the Clive W. and Mona M. Lacy Trust and a partnership with the Telegraph Herald, the Library now hosts a digital archi...

While working on Carnegie-Stout Public Library's project involving archiving digital scans of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald I came across...

"The health of the city of Dubuque was never better. While neighboring cities have been visited by that enemy of our race, the Cholera,...

Dubuque Weekly Observer , October 27, 1854 We are happy to learn that our fellow townsman, McKinney, the Daguerreotypist took the fi...

“The Centennial will long be remembered in Dubuque, not for the magnificence of the daytime display, but for the dark tragic history of th...

The Dubuque County Fair is happening right now at the Dubuque County Fairgrounds.  Here is the entertainment line-up from 50 years ago: La...

One of the laundromats near Loras College used to be a movie theater. Rich and Kay Manternach managed that theater, the Varsity at 1111 Lora...

I love the Architecture Days Scavenger Hunt . And I am terrible at it. If you're not familiar, Architecture Days takes place every Ap...

Christopher Walken in Pennies from Heaven Thanks to Bryce Parks at Dubuque365 for including my article " Pennies from Heaven Was ...

It's not every day the President of the United States visits Dubuque, but every eight years or so we find ourselves a destination on the...

North Fork of the Little Maquoketa (click to enlarge) Image courtesy of Chel H. It may be hard to believe, but last year at this time ...