One of Wood’s last works, Family Doctor depicts the slender and capable hands of Wood’s own doctor, Dr. A.W. Bennet as he holds a thermometer and stethoscope. Wood’s focused, detailed vision creates a deeply personal portrait of the doctor as a kind,…
Dark greenery forms a picturesque frame around the landscape, which contains a view of a steamboat on the Mississippi River. On the opposite bank is the city of Nauvoo, an historic curiosity in Illinois, which was established in 1839 by Mormon…
This photograph shows the 1937 centenary parade on Main Street. This photo shows 401 E. Main St at the intersection of Seminary Street and Main which is now currently the Galesburg UPS store.
This photograph depicts the Bank Of Galesburg building on the corner of E. Main St and Kellogg St. We see this was taken after the two additional floors were added in 1911, but before the 1915 construction of the Orpheum Theatre to the far right.
Trained in the photography studio of Matthew Brady, O’Sullivan is most famous for producing Civil War and expeditionary photographs. These images were taken on Lt. George M. Wheeler’s famous Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, which was…
Known for her works influenced by the Surrealist movement, Dorothea Tanning created this pencil drawing on paper in 1953. It is a representation of children walking to school.
Clare Smith was a printmaker who lived and worked in Galesburg, IL. After raising a family, she decided to go back to school and enrolled at Knox College, earning degrees in Art and French. After graduating she worked at the famous printshop Atelier…
This image is part of a larger photo album U.S. Military Railroad Photograph Album, containing 83 mounted photographs. It was created for Daniel Craig McCallum, director all military railroads for the Union army. The photograph was taken after the…