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In circular composition, we behold a miniature world. Three glamorous horseback performers; a clown and his costumed dog at lower left; a crowd of spectators beholding the action: all orbit around a circular red carpet. At right is an ambiguous…

In 1992, anthropologist Jayne Howell was interviewing migrant farmworkers at the Seneca Castle Camp, and noticed a small group creating miniature buildings made of wooden popsicle sticks. An incurious eye might have dismissed them as simplistic, but…

Excerpted from a larger bird's-eye view of Freeport, NY this image shows an agricultural business located on North Main Street; we see a streetcar in the foreground. Lenker is described as a "Florist and Nurseryman," although given Freeport's…