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| Title | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad dispatcher's office |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Studio Name/Location | Osgood Engraving Company, 352 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | ca. 1900 |
| Description | Photograph shows the interior of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad dispatcher's office in Galesburg, Illinois. There are 14 men in the room and one of them is inside of a caged off area. All of the men are wearing suits and ties, some wearing bowler hats and some are also wearing sleeve protectors. There are several telegraph machines, gas lamps and a desk stuffed with papers is prominent on the left. There is a clock on the wall to the left that reads five minutes after 4 o'clock. |
| Location Depicted | Seminary and South Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois. |
| Subject | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Railroad employees
Railroad companies
Office workers
Offices
Clothing & dress
Men
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | Addresses confirmed in the 1901 Galesburg city directory. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P-0372d |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives, 40 E. Simmons Street, Galesburg, IL 61401 |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.75 x 7.75 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 9600XL with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a photographic prints scanned at 8-bit grayscale 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the contrast +8 using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. |
| Date Digital | 2004-04-20 |
| File Name | gplP0372d |
| 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. |
