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Reference Map of Monroe Co., New York
Map of post-bellum Rochester puts an emphasis upon the city's developing industrial infrastructure: canals, roads, railroads, and a very short-lived steamship to Canada named theNorseman. Oddly, the one specific businesses mentioned is the Rochester…
Article Entitled "Migrant Folk Art on Display at Eastern Stream"
When the Geneseo Migrant Center's African Past, Migrant Present gallery was moved, in part, to the Balch Institute this article was published providing a brief overview of the content and is sources, as well as a discussion about Dr. Robert Farris…
Passages Gallery Working Drawings
In late 1990, the Geneseo Migrant Center began to prepare for Passages, another large exhibit. This is a set of working drawings for labels in the exhibit. Hand-drawn and written small pictures, notes, and explanations of the work being done are…
Robert Farris Thompson Consultant Contract for African Past, Migrant Present.
The late Dr. Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University was brought on as a consultant for African Past, Migrant Present. His requirements as stipulated in his contract were to look over the assembled collection for the gallery and to provide notes…
Envelope addressed to Sylvia Kelly with two handwritten quotes
An envelope addressed to Sylvia Kelly and the Geneseo Migrant Center from New York City has two different colored handwritten quotes on top of it. Judging from its postmark, we can speculate it dates to around 2003 and may have been Kelly jotting…
My Journey Through the Fields: The Art of a Migrant Farm Worker
At the time of this gallery show, Juan Cavazos was a 26-year-old migrant farm worker. He was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico and later made money sketching portraits in the taverns of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez. A CAMPS teacher named Annie…
Museum of Fine Arts, Plan of the First Floor
Floor plan to the influential art museum in Boston, MA shows not simply a series of galleries but an historical sequence that is displayed walking through the rooms. As Logan Ward suggests, visitors following a counter-clockwise route enact the…
American Museum of Natural History, Plan of First Floor
The American Museum of Natural History became famous, and then eventually infamous, for its gallery design combining natural history and anthropology. Rooms and carefully crafted dioramas showed taxidermied animals in their native habitats; so too…
Sylvia Kelly and Migrant Workers Double Exposure Photo
Creative Artists Migrant Program Services founder, Sylvia Kelly is pictured here with two migrant workers. The photo has a ghostly double exposure to it, with there appearing to be layers to the people pictured.
Young Worker and Migrant Child during Breakfast
A young child with toast and a bagel being escorted out of the breakfast room by a Geneseo student/staff member