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| Title | Broad Street from Standish Park |
| Date Original | ca. 1906 |
| Description | Photograph shows South Broad Street looking north from Standish Park. On the left is the High School and the Central Congregational Church. On the right is Beecher Chapel, a home and the top Galesburg Public Library. There are five young girls in the center of the photo and a man looking at the ground. There is a small crowd in front of the High School building. There are trolley tracks running down the center of the grassy median area. |
| Location Depicted | South Broad Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Galesburg High School (Galesburg, Ill.)
Central Congregational Church (Galesburg, Ill.)
Beecher Chapel (Galesburg, Ill.)
Streets
Girls
Men
Clothing & dress
Street railroad tracks
Trees
Parks
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | Written on the lower right of the photograph are the words: "Broad St. from Thompkins Steet." Tompkins is mispelled. There is some glare on the lower left of the photograph. Address verified in the 1907 Galesburg City Directory. Negative also available. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0440 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 7 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 display image was enhanced by adjusting the contrast from 0 to +9 and the brightness from 0 to +9 using Adobe PhotogShop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2004-12-09 |
| File Name | gplp0440 |
| 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. |
