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| Title | Cottage Hospital |
| Date Original | ca. 1895 |
| Description | Photograph shows Cottage Hospital in Galesburg, Illinois. It is a large brick building with two entrances visible. There are six women standing on the two wooden stairways leading inside. Four of the women are wearing nurses uniforms and caps. The other two women are dressed in street clothes, one with an apron on. There are two dormers visible on the roof. There is a house on the right and a barn on the left. There is some snow on the ground on the left. |
| Location Depicted | 500 block of North Seminary Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | Cottage Hospital (Galesburg, Ill.)
Hospitals
Health care facilities
Health & hygiene facilities
Buildings
Galesburg (Ill.)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | Address confirmed in the 1895 Galesburg city directory. There is a spot on the left side of the border of the photograph, a white spot on the tree on the left and on the right lower portion of the picture. The photograph was left in a plastic protective sheet when scanned. Negative also available. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact Galesburg Public Library archivist at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | P0237 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library Archives, 40 E. Simmons Street, Galesburg, IL 61401 |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 9600XL with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a photographic print scanned at 8-bit grayscale 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the input level of the shodows from 0 to 9 and the highlights from 255 to 242 using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. |
| Date Digital | 2004-04-15 |
| File Name | gplP0237 |
| 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. |
