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Bott’s print employs a detailed, black-and-white illustrative style in its portrayal of a middle-aged woman bathing her dog in a large tub. Shades of gray and black linework are used to give dimension and definition to the objects and figures in the…

One of photographer Arthur Rothstein's famous series of photographs chronicling the Dust Bowl. This item has a full-size file, and one cropped for use in a Juxtapose JS application used in the OpenValley exhibit Green New Deal: Conservation.

Undated photograph shows children of the Stewart family standing in front of Samuel Warren's York, New York homestead. The location now serves as the home of the Town of York Historical Society.

Portrait of Samuel Warren (1797-1862), pioneer grape grower and winemaker of York, Livingston County, New York.

Among the ten scenes for Rochester's Centennial in 1934, the third took viewers back to 1829 and the daredevil's fateful leap from High Falls. Two views of the scene appear here: a portion of the program cover, and a photograph within a pdf file of…

Even prior to opening of the Retsof Mine in 1880--which would become America's largest--the state of New York trailed only Michigan in production

A photo of a salt miner in Retsof Salt Mine, shoveling salt as a part of the pick and shovel method that was used in the mine before 1923

This engraving shows four views of the Onondaga Salt Company, located in Syracuse, NY. Due to an unusual geologic formation, salt springs located near the south end of Onandaga Lake had been an object of interest from the beginning of European…

Postcard shows northwest corner of cemetery, featuring stonework and a limestone basin originally supplied by the Hartman or "Fountain" farm on Groveland Road. It was built sometime shortly after 1886.

From a hand-typed label on the back of photograph: "View from Walnut St. bridge from intersection Hope & Water Sts. Shows rubble from demolition Perry Knitting Mills #s 1 & 2. Remains power plant left foreground adjoins site of chimney demolished…