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Number 9 on the Burleigh map, the Erie Railroad was one of four different lines passing through or near by the town of Caledonia. At the time of Burleigh's panoramic map (1892) the railroad was in dire financial straights and by the next year would…

The factory town of Lowell, MA was named after the inventor of a power loom that revolutionized manufacturing and, along with the technology, the structure of work. Owners of the mills employed thousands of people, most of them women called the…

A photograph of Tim Mateer, a student at SUNY Geneseo, collecting ants from an ant nest in the Spencer J Roemer Arboretum. The Arboretum is a component of the Geneseo campus.

A hilly landscape sets a picturesque scene of three vibrantly colored roses, placed in an ornate ceramic vase. Seemingly supported by a small black table, the vase and the roses overlook a hilly landscape with green grass and a bright blue lake. The…

This print’s obviously ironic title asks us to notice what flows into the void of unemployment—all the moments of time that remain to be filled. Three men stare into the near distance, fiddle with their fingers, or even empty a pebble from a shoe.…

In 1784, a grateful New York state legislature granted to the important American revolutionary Thomas Paine a farm seized from Tory supporter. Paine lived here between 1802 and 1806, surviving one attempt upon his life. Eventually the saltbox house…

Third Avenue El, set in New York City, features the corner of an intersection with four uniquely colored buildings. One has a brick-like color and texture, and the rest with uncommonly bright colors like pale blues, greens, and reds. These bright…

These Voices, These Faces was a portion of the gallery assembled for African Past: Migrant Present. Near the beginning of the exhibition it was intended as a wall display to place the viewer of the gallery squarely in the shoes of the creators of the…

5 images at GSA.

Magazine illustration dates to a period when women’s suffrage and socialism were commingling in productive new ways. Here, a recurring column on labor issues makes a point to have both men and women in an Atlas-like pose of bearing the burden of…