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Engraving
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Title
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Black River Falls, Watertown NY
Format
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jpeg, 828 KB
Publisher
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L. H. Everts & Co.
Date
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1878
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Durant, Samuel W., and Henry B. Peirce, <em>History of Jefferson County, New York : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers </em>(L. H. Everts, 1878): frontispiece. <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofjeffers00dura_0/page/n8">Web version available at Internet Archive.</a>
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During the 19th century it was estimated that the Black River generated some 135,000 horsepower along its course during the dry season. Just within the city limits of Watertown, NY the river dropped 110 feet, meaning that manufacturing concerns generally drove planning decisions. The suspension bridge pictured here, overlooking the picturesque Black River Falls, probably was intended for functional purposes .
Black River
Engraving
Waterfalls
Watersheds
Watertown, NY
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Still Image
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Map
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39 x 61 cm
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Moose and Black Rivers
Description
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This map's full title--"Lakes and reservoirs, head waters, Moose and Black Rivers: showing present and proposed feeders to Black River Canal"--reveals the underlying interests that probably generated its creation. Even in 1862, canals still were considered important drivers of economic development and here topographic features share space with their usefulness as canal feeders.
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Jenne, Daniel C., 1814-1886 (Creator)
Cooper, John A. (John Alder), b. 1830 (Draftsman)
Taylor, William B., 1824-1895 (Creator)
Sweet, S. H. (Sylvanus Howe), 1830-1899 (Creator)
Publisher
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Comstock & Cassidy
Date
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1862
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76ecbaa0-a831-0133-4194-00505686a51c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Lakes and reservoirs, head waters, Moose and Black Rivers"</a> The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1862.
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jpeg, 1.2 MB
jpeg, 4.3 MB
Black River
Black River Canal
Boonville, NY
Map
Watersheds
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Tempera painting
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9 x 26 in.
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Title
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Study for "Black River Canal--1845"
Creator
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McCullough, Lucerne
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration
Date
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1938
Format
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jpeg, 863 KB
Type
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Still image
Description
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Along with her sister Suzanne, McCullough was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to create a mural for the Boonville, NY post office (constructed in 1937). This 1838 study for the larger mural, completed the next year, is the same in most of its features. The mother and daughter have their bonnets removed, the better to see their faces, and the baskets of agricultural bounty have grown--perhaps a comment upon scarcity during the Great Depression.
In 1828 a proposed Black River Canal was surveyed as to branch off the successful Erie Canal, extending from Rome, NY north toward the St. Lawrence River. It was thought that lower-cost transportation would aid in economic development of communities in Lewis, Herkimer, and St. Lawrence counties. Construction was completed by 1855: 35 miles of canal, and another 40 miles of navigable waters along the Black River to the village of Carthage. But maintenance costs and competition from railroads made the canal unprofitable and in 1900 it was abandoned north of Boonville, NY and completed shut down in 1925. Thus, the McCulloughs' mural looks back to a relatively recent past in Boonville.
Black River
Black River Canal
Boonville
Canals
Watersheds