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Cropsey, initially trained as an architect, turned to painting in the style of Thomas Cole's sublime renderings of nature. He traveled in the Northeast and Europe, gaining recognition for his increasingly vivid fall hues and more restful settings.…

We witness a body in pain through a narrowly focused, irregular aperature. The setting, it's implied, is some kind of institutional hospital or sanatorium: a thin mattress upon a spartan bedframe; garments stripped of pattern or individuality.…

Named after the miller Theophilus Short, this small village of perhaps 800 seems to have been using this map in an aspirational way: by visualizing itself as a place to which more businesses and people would locate. The main appeal was its situation…

Oil painting of Greenich Village nightlife location dismissed by a Federal Writers Project description as "an uninteresting hodgepodge of buildings of varying sizes and ages, suggesting little of the charm that lies beyond its limits." In 1982, a…

This map was made to show the approximate route that Sheffield Peabody traveled in 1889 to Oklahoma territory.

Records of wages paid by Peabody for help on his farm

Journal<br />

Homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory and separated from his Springwater, NY family, Peabody sat for this photograph taken on December 29, 1894. He would have been 64 years old.

Family plot located at Evergreen Cemetery, Springwater NY. On the back side of Peabody&#039;s monument is verse adapted from Thomas Jefferson&#039;s deathbed letter to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph: &quot;Farewell my dear family adieu / The last pangs of…