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

The 19th-century land rush was heavily subsidized by railroad companies, who had been granted large tracts of appropriated indigenous land and had a financial stake in the settlement of territories. This advertisement lists out eighteen inducements…

The factory town of Lowell, MA was named after the inventor of a power loom that revolutionized manufacturing and, along with the technology, the structure of work. Owners of the mills employed thousands of people, most of them women called the…

This structure was located on a 1500-acre cantaloupe farm in California's Imperial Valley near the US border with Mexico. Its photographer, Dorothea Lange, was one of the best-known photographers of the New Deal era, often recording poverty amidst…

Influential account of two years lived near Walden Pond, MA by Transcendentalist writer. One recurring theme in the text is the search for a home and its cost, which Thoreau defined as "the amount of what I will call life which is required to be…

Anti-Irish sentiment in America had dated to the early 1800s, when immigrants arrived to work on major infrastructure projects like canals and railroads. This only accelerated during the Great Famine (1845-52) and afterwards. Frederick Opper was the…

Photograph of Ashantee, the Avon home of Herbert and Martha Blow Wadsworth, with lawn, drive and tree in the foreground. It was constructed in the late 1880s. Herbert was a grandson of early Geneseo settler James Wadsworth.

A small sample drawn from 500 photographs taken during a day-long workshop sponsored by the Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS). Held at Sodus Central School, the activities included drawing, photography, papier-mâché, collage, and…

From a position above the ecliptic, we behold our home solar system the sun and even the planets represented as whirling energy. Alongside one planet and its moon is an inscription: "We Are Here." Beyond are fanciful galaxies, cloud nebula, and…

This is a halftone image created from an original pen-and-ink drawing no longer available. It was drawn by a Haitian immigrant farmworker living at the Hoehandle labor camp in Castile, NY. His work was featured in the 1986 gallery show African Past:…