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Haitian Women Bathing Babies
Two Haitian women are photographed bathing their babies in tubs of water outside of a Migrant Camp. This photograph is from the early 80s, at Jimmy Jordan's. The mothers are dressed in very nice skirts and shirts, with their children calmly accepting…
Halkett's "Guideway Steam Culture" Illustrated
Scheme for the application of steam engines to agriculture was deemed by the editors of "The Genesee Farmer" to be "more poetry than practice." Surreal as it appears to be, except for the rail lines modern planting and harvesting use very similar…
Harbor
At least a third of this painting is dominated by a harbor, whose representation of waves resemble the letter "U" and whose boats are the simplest of icons. To characterize the scene as childlike, however, overlooks the skillful pattern-making…
Harbor Island, Lake George, NY
David Johnson was a second-generation school of the Hudson River School who studied with Jasper Francis Cropsey and was friends with his contemporaries John Frederick Kensett and John William Casilear. This is one of several paintings Johnson made of…
Harvest Still Life
Nature's bounty is gathered into a late-summer array: grapes, pears, peaches, a plum and a melon; behind them, heads of wheat and various flowers. It is not a haphazard grouping, given the wheat stalks poking out from green grass; the effect is…
Haverstraw Landscape
According to the Federal Writers Project Guide to New York state, "Haverstraw...squats on the edge of the Hudson with its back propped against High Tor, Little Tor, and Pyngyp...Here James Wood discovered the modern system of burning brick and set up…
High Banks, Mount Morris
Scenic view from the northern end of present-day Letchworth State Park accompanied W. S. Ward's essay "The Valley of the Genesee."
High Bridge
Completed in 1848 as part of the Croton Aqueduct System, this structure originally spanned the Harlem River using 16 stone arches (later replaced by steel). At the time of Jacoby's painting, some 24 million gallons of water were passing over it every…
High Falls of Genesee
Original description reads "High Falls, The Crown Jewel of Brown's Race Historical District, Rochester, NY." Beginning in the 1990s the City of Rochester attempted to redevelop the former manufacturing area as a mixed housing and tourism district,…
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