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Probably circulated during an unsuccessful unionizing drive at the Perry Knitting Co. in 1937, this flyer is addressed not only to employees but the larger Perry community. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee ask, rhetorically, why the Perry…

This single-side document probably dates to a 1937 effort to unionize the Perry Knitting Co. employees. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee met considerable resistance from company management and some employees, who staged a "Loyalty Parade"…

“City Landscape” uses a beautiful palette of earth tones set against concrete infrastructure, especially an overpass that curves across the sky. Beneath that new automotive world, a jumbled cluster of buildings appears at left. It's difficult to tell…

Anchel’s lithograph is a perceptive depiction of an urban recreational space, which has numerous activities occurring around its focal point that create a dynamic of movement and energy. In the distance, tall buildings provide the backdrop for a…

Photograph shows workers constructing New York City's second major water tunnel, which originates at the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, passes under the East River to Astoria, Queens, then continues south through Brookyn--a distance of 20 miles.…

By 1943, "stateside" civilian life in the US had been transformed by WWII. The War Production Board had been granted authority to conserve strategic resources, prioritize essential industrial work, and redistribute labor to support the war effort.…

About the ArtistBorn Mabel Jacque Williamson in Cincinnati, OH, Dwight was one of the more controversial and prolific lithographers of her time. She studied painting at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco, CA in her twenties, travelling to…

Best known for its sulphur springs, this legacy still is seen in the large Sanitarium located near the center of panorama. Patients would have traveled there via the New York Central RR or the Lehigh Valley RR. At the time of this lithograph, the…

This collection of poems were written during the early 2000s by migrant farmworkers participating in the Geneseo Migrant Center's Creative Artists Migrant Programs Services (CAMPS). The writings were facilitated and translated by poet Janine Pommey…

A table, draped in eggshell cloth and situated in front of a curtain of the same color, holds a vase containing cherry blossoms, a tea cup, a decorated box—perhaps a tea chest?—and a small statue of a frog. Each of the items seems to evoke East Asian…