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	Pioneer Creamery Company Title Pioneer Creamery Company Date Original ca. 1920 Description Photograph of an interior room at the Pioneer Creamery Company. There are ten women in uniforms sitting at tables packaging butter into boxes. The table on the left seems to have a conveyer belt down the center moving the boxes along. One of the women on the right is weighing a box. There are four men in the photograph. One with his back to the camera seems to be unloading large baskets of butter, another cutting them into squares and another measuring them. The fourth man is leaning against the wall to the left. All have white caps on. Location Depicted 106 - 128 South Chambers Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois Subject Pioneer Creamery Company (Galesburg, Ill.) Dairy products industry Butter making Butter Uniforms Tables Boxes Baskets Scales Ventilation Conveying systems Men Women Clothing & dress Galesburg (Ill.) Photographic prints Notes There are some scratch marks that appear white on the upper and middle of the left portion of the image. Address was verified in the 1922 Galesburg City Directory. Ordering Information Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org Image Number P0191 Repository Galesburg Public Library Archives Repository Collection Photographic Collection Object Description 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 9.5 in. Digital Reproduction Information Digital image captured using an Epson Expression 1680 scanner with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a print photograph scanned at 8-bit grayscale 600ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this dispaly image was enhanced by adjusting the contrast from 0 to +10 and the brightness from 0 to -10 using Adobe Photoshop CS. Date Digital 2004-08-26 File Name gplP0191 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.
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