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| Title | Illinois Hotel |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Studio Name/Location | Charles H. Osgood, landscape photographer, 4 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | ca. 1890 |
| Description | Photograph shows the Illinois Hotel facing Main Street. It was three stories high with a basement level and a cupola on the roof. There is a portico entrance in the middle of the building and an enclosed entrance to the right. To the left in the basement is the Illinois Barber Shop and what appears to be the painted word, Confectionary. Around the corner to the left on Kellogg Street is a sign that says Illinois Beer Buffet with small electric lights around it. It was for the Illinois Hotel Saloon or Sample Room. Further down Kellogg Street is the E.W. Dodge new and secondhand goods store and on the next block is the Brown Corn Planter Works. On the far right is the N.P. Nelson Dry Goods store. There are bicycles and chairs in front of the hotel with several men standing and sitting near the entrances. |
| Location Depicted | 252 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Illinois Hotel (Galesburg, Ill.)
Illinois Hotel Barbershop (Galesburg, Ill.)
Illinois Hotel Sample Room (Galesburg, Ill.)
E. W. Dodge Second Hand Store (Galesburg, Ill.)
N. P. Nelson Company (Galesburg, Ill.)
Hotels
Cupolas
Men
Bicycles & tricycles
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | Taverns during the time period that the photograph was taken were often called sample rooms. Address was verified in the 1890 Galesburg City Directory. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0345 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using an Epson Expression 1680 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a print photograph scanned at 8-bit grayscale 600 ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the input level of the contrast from 0 to +15 and the brightness from 0 to +11 using Adobe PhotoShop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2004-09-02 |
| File Name | gplP0345 |
| Original Database | This record is from the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive, http://www.umvphotoarchive.org, a collaborative project of cultural heritage organizations in the Iowa-Illinois Mississippi River region. |
