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First director of the Geneseo Migrant Center holds two pairs of traditional snowshoes, probably made by the community of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake at Rapid Lake, Quebec. Since the late 1940s they had traveled seasonally to Western New York,…

This series of seven photographs shows a traditional Algonquin method for constructing snowshoes. Wood, either yellow birch or ash, is bent and then strung with babiche--stretched moosehide. The lightweight apparatus then is varnished for protection…

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…

Group of 25 photocopies with a post-it note attached: “A variety of photos that might gain responses." From this information and the image's subject matter, we can infer that they may have been brought by Geneseo Migrant Center staff to meetings with…

When the Geneseo Migrant Center's African Past, Migrant Present gallery was moved, in part, to the Balch Institute this article was published providing a brief overview of the content and is sources, as well as a discussion about Dr. Robert Farris…

At the close of the 1986 gallery African Past, Migrant Present, some art pieces were transported to the Balch Institute in Philadelphia. They were displayed there as part of their "Freedom's Doors" exhibition. It is unknown what works from African…

Dr. Robert Farris Thompson was a professor of art history Yale University and agreed to be a consultant on the Geneseo Migrant Center's African Past: Migrant Present Exhibit. He also delivered a lecture at SUNY Geneseo--advertised via this hand-drawn…

In late 1990, the Geneseo Migrant Center began to prepare for Passages, another large exhibit. This is a set of working drawings for labels in the exhibit. Hand-drawn and written small pictures, notes, and explanations of the work being done are…

As with designing anything, African Past, Migrant presents went through many iterations before one design was settled on. While all of these plans may look similar, each calls attention to different details or aspects of the gallery and show the care…

The late Dr. Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University was brought on as a consultant for African Past, Migrant Present. His requirements as stipulated in his contract were to look over the assembled collection for the gallery and to provide notes…