Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Illinois, 1914 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Step back in time with Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Illinois, 1914, a historic image rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Ill.
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Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Illinois, 1914
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Galesburg, Illinois, in 1914 was a railroad and manufacturing town in the western part of the state, shaped by the shops and yards of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy line and by a range of local factories. Knox College, founded in 1837 by antislavery activists, anchored its civic and cultural life, and the Knox Conservatory of Music was one of the institutions that drew students and visitors to the campus. Residents knew the town for its college and for the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate held there, a point of local pride that the campus leaned on for its reputation. This photograph records the conservatory and its grounds at the moment when the college was expanding its arts programs in the years before the First World War.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,522 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Ill. |
| Reference | IL Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, 1914 |
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