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| Title | Sugar bush |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Date Original | ca. 1890 |
| Description | Photograph shows 15 men, women and children at a sugar bush camp, tapping sugar maple trees and boiling the sap down to make either maple syrup or maple sugar. There are two sheds visible with a great deal of steam coming from the larger shed. Three wagons are visible. |
| Location Depicted | Section 35, Rio Township, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Sugar maple tapping
Sugar industry
Maple sugar industry
Maples
Men
Women
Children
Horses
Harnesses
Carts & wagons
Barrels
Clothing & dress
Rio (Knox County, Ill. : Township)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | A sugar bush is a grove of sugar maples used as a source of maple syrup or maple sugar-American Heritage Dictionary. Written on the back of the photograph, "Angus Moor sugar bush, 1 mile S. and 1 mile West of Ontario Corners. Was Virgin timber." Rex Cherrington, a local historian believes the image was taken at section 35 of Rio Township. Negative available. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0300 |
| 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, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the contrast from 0 to +13 and the brightness form 0 to +14 using Adobe PhotoShop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2005-02-01 |
| File Name | gplp0300 |
| 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. |
