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Kadulin, Vladimir Fedorovich (1884-1957) Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kadulin attended art schools in Moscow and Kiev, then turned to a career as a cartoonist for one of Petrograd’s leading newspapers. Postcard versions of his cartoons became very…

This church was and still is a center for much activity in Avon. After the school burned down in the 1950s, the church was used for two second grade classes. There was no PA systems, telephones, or bells so there was no connections between the…

Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) along with Dolores Huerta was founder of the pioneering National Farm Workers Association in 1962--later reorganized as the United Farm Workers five years later. He adapted activist tools of both labor unions and the civil…

Excerpted from a larger bird's-eye view of Freeport, NY this image shows an agricultural business located on North Main Street; we see a streetcar in the foreground. Lenker is described as a "Florist and Nurseryman," although given Freeport's…

This poem by Charlie Jr. Spinks speaks about how babies do not have to worry or take care of themselves while adults do. Spinks states how they sometimes wish to be a baby so they wouldn't have to stress about anything and their life would be easier.…

Postcard from a birds-eye view shows the lakeside amusement park near the height of its popularity. The green-roofed building near center likely is the Hotel Ontario, a connection between the area's past as a resort during the 1870s-80s, and its…

Number 44 on the Burleigh map, in plain language this was a barber shop that had been operating since 1885. Prior to that, Bundy had worked in the shop of his brother Thomas while attending school. By the time of the map's publication, Charles was…

Magazine illustration dates to a period when women’s suffrage and socialism were commingling in productive new ways. Here, Braverman's image perhaps redeploys American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality--that is, simply…

In the foreground are four children and a dog, each making a somewhat inscrutable gesture. Behind them, in the middle ground, another child walks toward them using a pair of crutches—again, leaving us to speculate as what has happened and the…

A line of children lay in a row receiving treatment for tuberculosis. They are horizontal and outside, which was a part of the Brehmer method of treatment.