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Two pages from a series of several different concepts for retrospective show on migrant farmworkers. Created by a professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, the exhibit showed the experiences of four different cultural groups--Mexican, Algonquin…

This series of seven photographs shows a traditional Algonquin method for constructing snowshoes. Wood, either yellow birch or ash, is bent and then strung with babiche--stretched moosehide. The lightweight apparatus then is varnished for protection…

First director of the Geneseo Migrant Center holds two pairs of traditional snowshoes, probably made by the community of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake at Rapid Lake, Quebec. Since the late 1940s they had traveled seasonally to Western New York,…

Winfield Holcomb Hall was built in 1969 and took its name from an earlier demonstration school at Geneseo. Its purpose was to provide hands-on experience for School of Education students in the classroom and in their research. It hosted the offices…

Constructed in 1967, the Brodie Fine Arts building is named in honor of William A. Brodie, a Geneseo attorney whose clients included various members of the Wadsworth family. Brodie was one of several local leaders whose efforts were instrumental in…

Founded in 1968, this community arts organization is located on the Mount Morris, NY campus that once had been a tuberculosis hospital (specifically a suite of doctors' residences pictured here). During the 1930s, and before the development of…

For more than two decades the Geneseo Migrant Center (GMC) worked with a First Nations community who migrated annually to Western New York. Officially designated as the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (usually called Rapid Lake), they were employed by…

These five poems date to an early proposal for a 1986 exhibition staged by the Geneseo Migrant Center (GMC). All had been published previously in collections of poetry; for African Past, Migrant Present they were to be paired with black & white…

Ahead of Cavazos' 1989 show at the Bertha V. B. Lederer Gallery, he sketched several of the works that appeared in the exhibition. Perhaps it was to help others identify the objects; perhaps it was intended for subsequent shows in Buffalo. The…

Two digital photos tentatively identified as Camp Blue Eagle, located near Naples and Springwater. Migrant farmworkers here weren't attached to any specific farm, although many worked at the Roy Gibson farm in Springwater. These images probably date…