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[Nutting party at Highland Park]
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| Title | [Nutting party at Highland Park] |
| Date Original | 1911 |
| Description | Image shows a group of children and teenagers sitting on a railing at Highland Park in East Galesburg. There are five girls on the left and four boys on the right and all sitting on a railing of what appears to be a wooden bridge. The youngest boy is wearing short pants, the next two boys are in knickers and the boy on the far right is wearing long pants. The two youngest girls in the center are wearing short dresses; the three other girls on the left are wearing longer dresses. All but three are wearing coats, sweaters and jackets. There is a wooded area behind them and there are three tree trunks on the left of the image. |
| Location Depicted | Highland Park, east of Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Highland Park (East Galesburg, Ill.)
Parks
Picnics
Picnic grounds
Bridges
Railings
Clothing & dress
Boys
Girls
Groups
East Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
Farley, Marjorie
Rearick, Helen
Summit, Naomi
Host, Gertrude
Hatfield, Charles
Summit, Paul
Host, John
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| Notes | Written on the back of the card in ink is: "Marjorie Farley, Helen Rearick, Naomi Summit, Gertrude Host, Charles Hatfield, ....Hatfield, Paul Summit, John Host." Sentence typed over some of the names making them illegible is "Part of the yearly nutting party held each year, this was their summer picnic, held at Highland Park, 1911." |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at (309)-342-0423 or at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0559 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.5 x 4.5 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 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the input level of the contrast from 0 to +9 using Adobe PhotoShop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2006-05-02 |
| File Name | gplp0559 |
| Original Database | This record is from the upper Mississippi Valley Image Archives. http://umvphotoarchive.org, a collaborative project of cultural heritage organizations in the Iowa-Illinois Mississippi region. |
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