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Entrance chamber building for the Delaware Aqueduct, a system that provides over half of New York City with its water.

Held in Buffalo, NY, the wonders of Niagara Falls electricity were shown via 240,000 lightbulbs

7 images at GSA.

Detail from an 1872 map shows the location of Sheffield Peabody's house, next to School #4

In this still life we see upon a sideboard a pot planted with large lillies, as well as smaller flowers growing around them. There is a book open, which looks to be a highly stylised Bible, propped up in its own rectangular vessel. Given the…

We behold five white Easter lilies in a glass jug on a red tablecloth. The background is beige, but Spinchorn has dabbed in hints of red, purple, and orange. The lilies and their jug fully fill out the canvas, leaving little negative space. The…

At least two questions are implied by this painting’s title: which edge of the garden, and what is a garden? Due to a flattened plane and Sarkadi’s composition we see a row of hollyhocks and other tall flowers at the bottom of the canvas, with no…

In 1942, amid World War II labor shortages, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) constructed a labor camp located near the town of Elba, NY. It was one of many across the country whose purpose was to facilitate the harvest of valuable crops. These…

The Rice Collection annotation reads: &quot;Mrs. Charles Torrey, a teacher at Perry Elementary School, looks over part of the process during the Perry Knitting Mill Open House in 1954.&quot;<br /> <br /> It appears that the machines are sanders of some kind. Mrs. Torrey…

An eagle sits atop a blasted tree, apparently screeching at four planes flying overhead. Nakamizo's print was selected for inclusion at a 1943 exhibition sponsored by Artists for Victory, and can be taken as an afirmation of American resistance to…