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Dublin Core
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Title
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Perry Knitting Co.
Description
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This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
Contributor
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Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Digital graphic
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Title
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Global Material Flows for Clothing, 2015
Description
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This graphic illustrates the product life cycle of the global clothing economy. It appears in a report created for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, <em>A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future</em>. Among the report's important points: virtually no recycled materials are used in the manufacture of clothing; two-thirds of that virgin material is some form of plastic; and that about 85% of all clothing materials are wasted during production, end up in landfills, or are incinerated. <br /><br />This item consists of two image files, both the annotated original and one cleaned up for display purposes.
Creator
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Circular Fibres Initiative
Publisher
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Date
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2017
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<span style="left: 75.5905px; top: 684.35px; font-size: 15.8333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.11888);">Ellen MacArthur Foundation, </span><em><span style="left: 304.998px; top: 684.35px; font-size: 15.8333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.10871);">A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future </span></em><span style="left: 75.5905px; top: 705.186px; font-size: 15.8333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.13785);">(2017, http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications) <br /></span>
Format
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png, 323 KB
png, 429 KB
Type
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Still image
Clothing
Perry Knitting Co.
Perry, NY
Pollution
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Title
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Sinclair Refinery, Wellsville NY
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 872 KB
jpeg, 302 KB
Description
An account of the resource
Town along the Genesee River has experienced the rise and fall of fortunes associated with extractive industries: initially lumber and tanning (using bark from hemlock trees), then the petroleum industry. In 1879 oil was discovered near Wellsville--whose naming antedated the petroleum strike--and in 1901 a refinery was constructed to process barrels from the Allegany field. Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation, formed in 1916, purchased the Wellsville refinery in 1927 and for years was the major producer of refined products in this area. The company had a national profile via its shrewd marketing, notably a dinosaur mascot introduced at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. A catastrophic fire in 1938 severely damaged the Wellsville plant; another in 1958 caused its closing. In 1969 Sinclair was purchased by the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). <br /><br />The afterlife of Wellsville's 100-acre refinery site has been problematic. Production of lubricating oils and grease, fuel oil, naptha, gasoline, lighter fluid, and paraffin led to groundwater contamination; a 10-acre waste dump sited alongside the Genesee River (with 230,000 cubic yards of hazardous chemicals) leached into surface water. In 1983 it was declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency, leading to mitigation efforts at the waste dump, "rechannelization" of the Genesee, and relocating Wellsville's drinking water intake upstream from the Sinclair refinery. Effects upon fish, waterfowl, and mammals have been significant and likely continue. Given the somewhat bucolic appearance of this postcard photo, the refinery's history serves as a cautionary tale.<br /><br />Source consulted: US Fish and Wildlife Service, <a href="https://www.fws.gov/northeast/nyfo/ec/files/SinclairNRD_PAS_6-16-2015.pdf">"Preassessment Screen and Determination for the Sinclair Refinery Superfund Site in Allegany County, New York”</a> (May 2015).
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Date
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1927-1938
Publisher
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Tichenor Bros. Incorporated
Atlantic Richfield Company
Environmental Protection Agency
Genesee River
oil
Pollution
Post Card
Sinclair Oil Company
Watershed
Wellsville, NY
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Postcard
Physical Dimensions
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3.5 x 5 in.
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Title
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Kodak Park, Home of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester NY
Publisher
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Manson News Agency
Date
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1930-1945
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 628 KB
jpeg, 259 KB
Description
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Following the success of George Eastman's introduction of affordable cameras, the company's manufacturing infrastructure expanded rapidly. Postcard announces Rochester company as the "largest industry of its kind in the world." At its height in the mid-1960s, Kodak Park was comprised of 1,300 acres on a parcel four miles long, and housed 140 manufacturing buildings. At this location Kodak manufactured film, photographic paper, processing chemicals, magnetic tape, and some 4,000 other "research chemicals." 20,000 employees worked there, so the company's description of Kodak Park as "virtually a city within a city" was justified. <br /><br />As a consequence of its chemical production, Kodak Park also had an outsized ecological footprint--one that became increasingly public by the 1980s in the wake of Love Canal. Dioxin, methylene chloride, and many other hazardous wastes led to its status as (by far) the largest polluter in Western New York. Between 1974 and 2007, Kodak secretly operated a small nuclear reactor; in 2013 it was revealed that the company had buried radioactive waste at the western edge of this complex. The two large smokestacks at the photo's center were part of a coal-fired electrical plant that burned perhaps 600,000 tons of coal per year generting up to 200 megawatts--the equivalent of a city of 200,000. In 2018, one of only three such plants in New York state, converted to natural gas (also a fossil fuel). <br /><br />Several buildings were demolished, the plot of land was renamed Eastman Business Park, and its chemical reckoning continues.<br /><br />Works Consulted: Eastman Kodak, <em>The Kodak Park Works</em><em>: Where Kodak Film, Papers, and Chemicals are Made</em> (1964)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Coal
Eastman kodak company
Genesee River
George Eastman
Kodak Park
Pollution
Post Card
Rochester, NY