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| Title | Birds eye southeast from Central Church Tower |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Studio Name/Location | Osgood Photo Supply Company, 330 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | ca. 1900 |
| Description | Photograph shows a view of Galesburg, Ill. just south of Main Street looking east. Some of the larger buildings shown are the Brown Corn Planter Works, Methodist Epicsopal Church, the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Depot, Brown's Business College, the Post Office and Corpus Christi Lyceum. |
| Location Depicted | East Simmons Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Brown's Corn Planter Works (Galesburg, Ill.)
Brown's Business College (Galesburg, Ill.)
Methodist Episcopal Church (Galesburg, Ill.)
Corpus Christi Lyceum (Galesburg, Ill.)
Post offices
Aerial views
Buildings
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | On the back of the photograph is written, "Bird's eye S.E. from Central Church Tower. Showing the corner of Cherry & Simmons & the old post office. Prairie & Simmons where the Firestone Service Station now stands. The Ill. Power Bldg. at the corner of Kellogg & Simmons. The old City Hall Bldg. on Cherry St. with the steel enclosed outside stairway R. edge of picture. Old Methodist Church at the corner of Kellogg and Tompkins. Old C. B. & Q. Depot. Negative available. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0916 |
| 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 scanner with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a print photograph scanned at 8-bit grayscale 600ppi. The master scan is untouched. |
| Date Digital | 2005-01-25 |
| File Name | gplp0916 |
| 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. |
