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Engraving
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4 x 6 in.
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Title
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Salt Manufacture at Syracuse
Date
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1860
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Cooper, Ken
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J.H. French, <em>Gazetteer of the State of New York</em> (Ira J. Friedman, 1860): 480.<br /><br />Courtesy of Internet Archive
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jpeg, 852 KB
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This engraving shows four views of the Onondaga Salt Company, located in Syracuse, NY. Due to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_industry_in_Syracuse,_New_York">an unusual geologic formation</a>, salt springs located near the south end of Onandaga Lake had been an object of interest from the beginning of European cultural contact--so much so, that the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784 had forced cession of these lands as the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation. Salt was a necessity in food preservation, and construction of the Erie Canal in 1825 meant that evaporated salt could be transported inexpensively. <br /><br />As of 1860, when this engraving was published, the scale of production had grown dramatically. We see the older "salt block" method, whereby wood- or coal-fired boilers heated banks of iron kettles 24 hours per day; and we see the newer "solar" evaporation vats. At this time three major salt operations in the Syracuse area were producing more than seven million bushels of salt every year, leading to the drilling of wells or (as is shown here) the pumping lake water into evaporation tanks. Salt operations at Syracuse declined after the Civil War with competition from western sources and rail transportation. <br /><br />The Onondaga salt formation had a toxic second life, however, with its mining for use in the Solvay manufacturing process of sodium carbonate--"soda ash" used in a variety of manufacturing processes. Waste products from the Solvay Process Company and later Allied Chemical, millions of tons every year, were deposited as "waste beds" in marshes alongside Onondaga Lake. Despite partial remediation they remain a toxic legacy.
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Ira J. Friedman
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Still image
Onondaga Lake
Salt Mines
Syracuse, NY
Watersheds
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Bird's eye view
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30 x 71 cm
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Warsaw, NY, 1885
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L.R. Burleigh
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L.R. Burleigh, Troy NY
Beck & Pauli
Date
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1885
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Cooper, Ken
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804w.pm006500">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804w.pm006500</a>
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jpeg, 1.8 MB
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Bird's eye view
Description
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Bird's eye view looking northwest shows the rapidly growing town of 3,200 located along Oatka Creek. Founded in 1803 from the Holland Purchase tract, agriculture followed the clearing of timber and by the later 19th century the town's economy was a mix of farming, milling, manufactures, and (most recently) salt mining. Burleigh uses great ingenuity to depict five different salt mines on his panorama, located along the two main railroads passing through Warsaw.
Also notable are the town's three different different newspapers, an early gas works (founded in 1859), and a large union free school.
bird's eye view
Map
Salt Mines
Warsaw, NY
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Map
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9 x 21 in.
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Title
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Western New York Salina formation and salt locations
Description
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Detail from "Map of Central New York, Showing Outcrop of the Salina Formation and Locations Where Salt or Brine Has Been Found in Wells or Shafts." Full map is attached as separate file.
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Phalen, W. C.
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United States Geological Survey
Date
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1919
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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W.C. Phelan, "Salt Resources of the United States," USGS Bulletin 669 (Washington: GPO, 1919)
USGS Publications Warehouse
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jpeg, 1.9 MB
jpeg, 2.9 MB
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Map
American Rock Salt
Retsof Mine
Retsof, NY
Salt Mines
Underground Atlas
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Map
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Salt Producing Regions, 1880
Description
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Even prior to opening of the Retsof Mine in 1880--which would become America's largest--the state of New York trailed only Michigan in production
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Gannett, Henry (1846-1914)
Hewes, Fletcher W. (1838-1910)
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Date
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1883
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Cooper, Ken
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"Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, Showing by Graphic Methods Their Present Condition and Their Political, Social and Industrial Development"
Library of Congress digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701gm.gct00009
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jpeg, 1.4 MB
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Map
Retsof Mine
Salt Mines
Underground Atlas
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Featured photography of the Genesee Valley Region.
Description
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Genesee Valley, Geneseo, Mt. Morris, Letchworth, NY, State Park, Hogsback, Genesee River, photography,HDR,scenic,tourism,tourist attraction,hiking,camping
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Walters, Keith
Cooper, Ken
Argentieri, Liz
Root, Leah
Date
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2015-11-19
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Walters,Keith
Root,Leah
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Keith Walters Photography
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jpg, 3 MB
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Image
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Digital photograph
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Contemporary photo of American Rock Salt mining operation, Mount Morris, NY
Description
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After the 1994 collapse of a salt mine in Retsof, NY, the company reorganized, purchased mineral rights, and today produces between 10,000-18,000 tons of road salt daily
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Walters, Keith -- used by permission
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2015
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Cooper, Ken
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jpeg, 821 KB
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Digital photograph
American Rock Salt
Mining
Mount Morris, NY
Salt Mines
Underground Atlas
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Photograph
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American Rock Salt Photo
Description
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A photo of the present day salt processing plant, owned by American Rock Salt company.
Date
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2004
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Auld, Mary
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Wikimedia Commonsa
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Edoderoo
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Wikimedia Commons
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jpeg, 846 KB
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Photograph
American Rock Salt
Mount Morris, NY
Salt Mines