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Frost Manufacturing Company
Title
Frost
Manufacturing
Company
Date Original
ca.
1895
Description
Photograph
shows
the
exterior
of the
Frost
Manufacturing
Company
on
West
Simmons
Street.
There are
several
interconnected
one
story
buildings
and a
large
smoke
stack
with the
letter
"F"
on
it.
Smoke
is
coming
out
of the
smoke
stack
and
is
being
blown
away.
There
is
an
electric
street
light
hanging
on a
wire
over
a
dirt
road
and
wooden
sidewalk.
Location Depicted
137
West
Simmons
Street
,
Galesburg
,
Knox
County
,
Illinois
Subject
Frost Manufacturing Company (Galesburg, Ill.)
Factories
Industry
Smokestacks
Smoke
Buildings
Street lights
Dirt roads
Wooden sidewalks
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
Notes
Address
verified
in the
1895
Galesburg
City
Directory.
Written
under
the
photograph
,
"West
Simmons
St."
Ordering Information
Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org
Image Number
P1667
Repository
Galesburg Public Library Archives
Repository Collection
Photographic
collection
Object Description
1
photograph
:
b&w
;
6.25
x
9
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
input
level
of the
contrast
from
0
to
+8
and the
brightness
from
0
to
+6
using
Adobe
Photoshop
CS.
Date Digital
2005-03-01
Publisher
Republican
Register
Newspaper
File Name
gplp1667
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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