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	[Bondi Building under construction] Title [Bondi Building under construction] Date Original ca. 1929 Description Photograph shows the seven-story Bondi Building under construction. Five men are on the two highest floors. A sixth man, barely visible, is laying on the top floor reaching down to something on the side of the building. Wooden and metal scaffolding are on the ground level and reach above the seventh floor. Kline's Department Store sign and building can be seen on the lower left. The sidewalk below has a covering over it. Two signs above the covered walkway advertise "Galesburg Roofing" and "Insurance Bonds." Location Depicted 311 to 313 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois Subject Bondi Building (Galesburg, Ill.) Klines Department Store (Galesburg, Ill.) Construction Construction equipment Construction industry Progress photographs Construction workers Scaffolding Building construction Building materials Buildings Galesburg (Ill.) Photographic prints Notes Image taken from a sheet of photos of the building under different stages of construction. Addresses and time period of the construction verified in a 1928 and 1929-30 Galesburg City Directories. A circle on the upper left of the image has the number 10 in it. Ordering Information Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at (309)-343-6118 or at pattym@galesburglibrary.org Image Number P0312 Repository Galesburg Public Library Repository Collection Photographic collection Object Description 1 print : b&w ; 1.75 x 2.25 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 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the input level of contrast from 0 to +18nd the brightness from 0 to +15 using Adobe Photoshop CS. Date Digital 2006-10-03 File Name gplp0312 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.
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