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| Title | Red Cross employees loading donated blood |
| Photographer | Gliessman |
| Studio Name/Location | Gliessman Studio, 311 E. Main St., R315-16, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Date Original | December 31, 1954 |
| Description | Inage shows two women who are either employees or volunteers for the Knox County Branch of the Regional Red Cross Blood Center loading trunks containg human blood into a station wagon. The automobile is parked outside of Walgreen's Drug Store in Galesburg, Ill. They are both wearing uniforms. There are three trunks on the sidewalk and the fourth is being loaded. There are signs on the trunks that state "This side up, human blood, glass, fragile." Printed on the windows of the drug store are the words "Cigars" and "Drugs" as well as signs for gin and wiskey. There is also a sign in the window between the two women that is a large toothbrush advertising Dr. West's Flexisoft Toothbrush. |
| Location Depicted | 156 E. Main St., Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois |
| Subject | American Red Cross Knox County Chapter (Galesburg, Ill.)
Walgreen Drug Store (Galesburg, Ill.)
Blood donations
Containers
Community service
Station wagons
Automobiles
Uniforms
Drugstores
Clothing & dress
Women
Galesburg, Ill.
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| Notes | This was probably the same Ford station wagon that was donated to the Knox County Chapter of the American Red Cross by the employees of Butler Manufacturing because this photograph was taken on the same day as the photo showing a station wagon in McCreery Motors showroom, December 31, 1954. Address verified in a 1954 Galesburg City Directory. Negative available. |
| Ordering Information | Please contact the Galesburg Public Library archivist at 309-343-6118 or at pattym@galesburglibrary.org |
| Image Number | NC1072 |
| Repository | Galesburg Public Library |
| Repository Collection | Photographic collection |
| Object Description | 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image captured using a Epson Expression 1680 scanner with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a negative scanned at 8-bit grayscale 1200ppi. The master scan is untouched. But this display image was enhanced by adjusting the brightness from 0 to +5 and the contrast from 0 to +8 using Adobe PhotoShop CS. |
| Date Digital | 2010-07-21 |
| File Name | gplnc1072 |
| 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. |
