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| Title | P. E. O. Home parlor |
| Photographer | Dale Humphrey |
| Date Original | ca. 1960 |
| Description | Photograph shows eleven women sitting in the parlor of the P. E. O. Home in Knoxville, Illinois. Also in the image are several chairs, stained glass windows, candelabras and wallpaper with a palm tree design. |
| Location Depicted | East Main Street, Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | P. E. O. Home (Knoxville, Ill.)
Couches
Chairs
Draperies
Candelabras
Lamps
Televisions
Wallpapers
Birdcages
Radiators
Women
Clothing & dress
Knoxville (Ill.)
Film negatives
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| Notes | The P. E. O. Home was built around 1911 as the Knox County Old Ladies Home. It was purchased by the P. E. O. Society as a retirement home for their members in 1953 but was not exclusively for members of the Society. It was demolished in June of 2002. Address verified in the 1960 Galesburg/Knoxville phone book. There is a small damaged spot on the lower left of this image This photograph was loaned to the library so that it could be scanned and saved to CD ROM disc. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P1681 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 negative : acetate, b&w ; 3.75 x 4.75 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using an Epson Expression 1680 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a film negative scanned at 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjsuting the input level of the brightness from 0 to +30 and the contrast from 0 to +60 using Adobe Photoshop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2005-07-12 |
| File Name | gplp1681 |
| 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. |
