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Relics Skagway Alaska
About the Artist: Lo Pinto was the son of Italian immigrants in New York City, his father a physician. After attending the National Academy of Design and taking classes at the Art Students League, he exhibited at venues like the Metropolitan Museum…
Relaxing at YWCA Camp Wacona
Part of the Young Women's Christian Association program was finding suitable housing for young single women, often relocating from rural areas to work in cities. Rochester headquarters on North Clinton offered affordable housing, but the organization…
Regional Exhibition Work by New York State and New Jersey Artists
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of regional art (New Jersey and New York) at the Federal Art Gallery, 225 West 57 St., New York City, showing a stylized gallery view.
Refreshments at Perry Knitting Co. Open House
Community visitors are offered a variety of soft drinks at an open house held on May 21, 1953. “While the project is designed to acquaint people generally with operations of the company," a preview stated, "it will also demonstrate the potential job…
Reference Map of Monroe Co., New York
Map of post-bellum Rochester puts an emphasis upon the city's developing industrial infrastructure: canals, roads, railroads, and a very short-lived steamship to Canada named theNorseman. Oddly, the one specific businesses mentioned is the Rochester…
Red Clown
A clown dressed in a red costume and ruffled collar holds up a game of Tic-Tac-Toe to play with a dog—or is it a pig, given the body shape and curly tail? Behind them, a large crowd under a big-top tent watches the two perform. It’s not entirely…
Recruits at Camp Meade, MD, Starting on Practice March
Located near Annapolis Junction, MD this was one of the larger cantonments on the east coast, some 400,000 volunteers and draftees passing through en route to WWI in Europe. The stark, regimented conditions facing new arrivals helps to explain the…
Record for the Appearance of Birds and Blooms, 1862
Farmers necessarily pay close attention to daily weather and seasonal patterns. Here, a farmer from North Almond, NY records a "register" of the first observed appearance of various migrating birds and of spring blooms. He is careful to give his…
Reclamation
An environmentally surreal scene, depicting two men in formal clothing, pulling artificial grass over barren land.