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Wide-angle panorama of looks west where the Erie Canal crosses the aqueduct at present-day Broad Street. Its course points toward the tower of Rochester's city hall. Directly across the Genesee we see factory of Cluett Peabody & Co., manufacturer of…

Postcard view of waterfall in the town that is seat of government in Allegany County. Originally named Philipsville, its population grew rapidly following construction of an Erie Railroad line--pictured at left--in 1850. As of 1860 there were two…

Replica of a structure built in 1874 by William Pryor Letchworth, who also supplied students with books and a melodeon. The school was used for 60 years, then torn down in 1947 before this replica was built forty years later.

This photo contains the men and women of The Perry Knitting Mill.

Blacks and grays are used to create a scene of women working in a factory at sewing machines. Birkin uses this monochrome palette to create a sense of weariness: no light comes in through the dark windows, leaving miserly electric lights inside to…

Two women are depicted holding one another, one nude and the other clothed. While the brushstrokes are liberated and cloud the painting, it is obvious there are another two figures in the background observing these women. This addition to the work…

The Geneseo Migrant Center has a collection of photographs the were created by at least three members of the family; there also are a handful of collages using those images. This one has an enigmatic annotation perhaps referencing the child's name…

This image incorporates a lot of life within an oddly cropped picture of the Garcia Family. This image gives a look inside of the living conditions of migrant farmworkers, but not through the eyes of someone who knows them as a worker, instead the…

In this detail from an 1872 map, we can see that the processing of meats took place literally next door to a school