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Watercolor and graphite composition captures the 1,000-ft. wide falls two miles upstream from where Mohawk joins the Hudson River. The name may derive from the Mohawk phrase "a canoe falling"--a wry bit of humor. According to an 1813 description, the…

Three months before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and direct US involvement in World War II, military mobilization was impacting many walks of American life. Here, a satirical cover juxtaposes the scale of an ice cream man--and the simpler life he…

Photograph of Wellsville, NY refinery combines an image of its Building 44 taken in 1955, an image of the 1938 fire, and an image of Building 44 today.

Image incorporates 1940 map of the village of Wellsville and a photograph from the devastating 1938 fire at the site of the Sinclair Refining Company in Wellsville

Although appearing in an atlas focused upon railway systems, this composite image of Western and Eastern New York state also features political boundaries, counties, towns, railroads, steamship lines, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines…

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…

A photograph of people water skiing on Conesus Lake

Perhaps influenced by geocentric cosmologies, earth is divided in four quandrants: two on land (a prickly pear cactus and a fire), and two under water. Surrounding the planet are four nested spheres: a rainbow of multicultural colors, upon which…

After the 1994 collapse of a salt mine in Retsof, NY, the company reorganized, purchased mineral rights, and today produces between 10,000-18,000 tons of road salt daily