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Screenshot from Henry Selick's animated film Coraline (2009) shows the bored protagonist, wandering around a new home to which her family has relocated, momentarily intrigued by her mother's souvenir snow globe. It plays an important role later in…

Corinthian Hall in Rochester was the site of Frederick Douglass' 1852 "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" speech.

Subtitle of this bird's eye view of southern tier town makes clear the importance of rail lines to its economic viability: "Junction of the New York, Lake Erie, and Western and the Syracuse, Geneva & Corning R.R.'s." The yards of those railroads are…

Number 13 on the Burleigh map, the Cottage Hotel was managed by the peripatetic Charles D. ("C.D.") McKay, who previously had run the Globe Hotel in Geneseo, then the Cascade House at Portage, NY, and later went on to manage the McKay House in Perry,…

The full title of this photograph is "Day laborers carrying sack of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi." It was taken by a photographer hired by the Farm Security Administration during…

The Rice Collection annotation describes this scene as &quot;One of the supervisors showing the cotton knitting machine that was used to make the cloth for the Nitey Nite p.j.s.&quot;<br /> <br /> Cotton yarn in barrels suggest the scale of the company&#039;s operation. The…

What appears to be a mill worker poses with a woman wearing a name tag and corsage. Given other photos in this sequence she may be a teacher at Perry Central School, who were given special tours along with the children. <br /> <br /> The Rice Collection…

Two maps from an historical atlas show the rise of a southern textile industry, especially during the early 20th century. By 1926, the long-dominant New England region of textile manufactures was about even with the south; in another twenty years it…

An apparently straightforward scene of home construction reveals a more complex, interconnected relationship between humans and the rest of nature. In the left foreground we see the stump of a tree, either downed by windfall or more likely cut down.…

An excerpt from The Livingston Republican from December 1857 that shows how decisions of local court cases were broadcast to the public.