Summary
library by the numbers The Dubuque County Historical Society's Capt. William Bowell Sr. River Library will move to a more accessible home in the river center addition of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. Here is a by-the-numbers look at the collection: Tens of thousands -- Historic photographs of boats associated with America's rivers. 6,000 -- Approximate number of bound books. 1690 -- Date of the oldest book in the collection, a book about mourning. 4 -- Boxes of indexes of historical references to Dubuque County people and places.
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River Library Flowing to New Center
Museum operators, the Dubuque County Historical Society, are moving the Capt. Willia...
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