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| Title | Children's room, Galesburg Public Library |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Studio Name/Location | 352 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | 1902 |
| Description | Photograph shows the Children's Room at the Galesburg Public Library. There are four large wooden tables surrounded by chairs and several bookcases along the walls and a card catalog to the left. There are three electric hanging light fixtures. The floor is made of wood and there are a great many paintings and sculptures decorating the room. |
| Location Depicted | Southeast corner of Simmons and Broad Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Galesburg Public Library (Ill.)
Children's libraries
Reading rooms
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | This was a Carnegie funded library. It burned to the ground in 1958. Among the items saved is a bust of a Native American male which is located on the right in the photograph on top of a bookshelf. This bust now resides in the Library Archival Room. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0282M |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives, 40 E. Simmons Street, Galesburg, IL 61401 |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 9600XL with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a photographic print scanned at 8-bit grayscale 600ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting contrast +9 and the brightness -15 using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. |
| Date Digital | 2004-04-14 |
| File Name | gplP0282M |
| 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. |
