Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 1914 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 1914 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.
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Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 1914
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Augustana College stood on the bluffs above the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1914, a Lutheran school founded by Swedish immigrants that had moved to the city in 1875. Rock Island was a railroad and manufacturing town, home to railroad shops and the federal arsenal on the river island that gave the city its name, and neighboring Moline drew many of the same Swedish workers to its farm-implement factories. The college trained pastors, teachers, and young people of the Swedish-American community, many of whom still worshiped and studied partly in Swedish. In the year war broke out in Europe, the campus was a source of pride for families who had come west to work in the mills and shops.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,315 × 1,848 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. |
| Reference | IL Augustana College, Rock Island, 1914 |
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