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| Title | St. Mary's Hospital and house of the Sisters of St. Francis |
| Photographer | Osgood |
| Studio Name/Location | Osgood Photo Supply Company, 330 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | September 13, 1929 |
| Description | Photograph shows the front of St. Mary's Hospital and the Sisters of St. Francis house on the right. The hospital is a five story stone and brick building with a statue of St. Mary placed in a small alcove in the center of the exterior of the fifth floor. There are three dormer windows, a ventilation vent and a cupolla with a cross on top of it on the roof. The house is made of stone, brick and wood and is three stories high, with a turret on the right side. There is a large smokestack behind the house. The street is paved with bricks and the Knox County Courthouse lawn and sidewalk can be seen in the foreground. There is a partial view of an automobile on the far right. |
| Location Depicted | Hospital at the southeast corner of Cherry and Tompkins Street and the house at 239 South Cherry St., Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | St. Mary's Hospital (Galesburg, Ill.)
Convent of the Sisters of St. Francis (Galesburg, Ill.)
Hospitals
Convents
Houses
Smokestacks
Dormers
Columns
Trees
Lawns
Sidewalks
Road, brick
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | The house in the right of the photograph was used as the convent home for the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Francis who according to historical reports helped with the building of the hospital, were the administrators for a number of years and also worked as nurses there. The hospital building still stands but no longer houses a hospital. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at (309)-343-6118 or at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0233 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using an Epson Expression 1680 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 contrast from 0 to +10 and the brightness from 0 to +8 using Adobe Photoshop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2006-09-26 |
| File Name | gplp0233 |
| Original Database | This record is from the Upper Mississippi Valley Image Archives. http://umvphotoarchive.org a collaborative project of culturl heritage organizations in the Iowa-Mississippi River region. |
