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A placid scene along the shore of this Finger Lake depicts men and women—there are no children present—at their leisure in genteel dress. Small groups are picnicking, lounging, boating, and perhaps courting. <br /> <br /> Kensett, a second-generation painter…

Summer Breeze depicts a rural landscape arranged across a shallow but continuous picture plane. In the foreground, a pale dirt path curves from the lower right corner toward the center of the composition, cutting through an open field of grass. The…

We see a table with a satin table cloth covering it; on it there is a vase of flowers, all with bright warm colors--red, yellow, and orange. To the left of the vase is a single blue book while on the right there is a pile of brown books. In the…

Three boys are deeply absorbed in the work of childhood, in this case perhaps the aquatic life beneath a stream's shimmering surface. Fastovsky's composition encloses the boys, unaware, beneath the arch of a viaduct yet with rolling parkland and…

The Perry Knitting Co. provided clothing and under for the US military during World Wars I and II. Those contributions had earned the factory special exemptions (on electricity rationing, for example) and draft deferments for many employees due to…

A stereoview card featuring the Sugar Loaf Rock at Letchworth State Park, New York. There has been debate about the name, some call this rock The Cathedral Rock. On back of card: Sugar Loaf Rock - 30 feet high, near 3d Falls.

A probably condensed engraving that shows, in a single vista, the cutting of sugar cane at right with an overseer on horseback, which is then carted to an enormous sugar mill--costing an estimated $10 million dollars each in current dollars. While a…

Caption to this diagram reads &quot;Large Base Puller and Various Uses to Which a Stump Puller Can Be Put.&quot; The alphabetic labels show different types of arrangements, both recommended and not, for the removal of trees. By the time of this book&#039;s…

Along with her sister Suzanne, McCullough was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to create a mural for the Boonville, NY post office (constructed in 1937). This 1838 study for the larger mural, completed the next year, is the same in…

According to the Rice Collection annotation, we&#039;re looking at &quot;Children from school who had been invited to the Open House at the Perry Knitting Company in 1954.&quot; It appears that at least one of the adults listening may be a schoolteacher.<br /> <br /> This…