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Accounts of Sheffield Peabody's accounts for workers.

A picnic shelter built by the Civilian Conservation Corps at Letchworth State Park, near the Lower Falls

A background of weightlifting and wrestling prepared McFadden (1868-1955) for his advocacy of physical fitness--or "physical culture" as it was called at the time. His entrepreneurial talents encompassed exercise equipment, dietary advice and,…

Illustrations of the aphid phylloxera, as well the damage it caused to grapevine roots, that prevented the successful cultivation of European grapes for quite some time, before those vinifera grapes were grafted onto the roots of native grapevines.

Joseph Biel (1891-1943) was a Jewish immigrant who had witness the pogroms of Bialystock, Russia; Lena Gurr (1897-1992), born in New York, was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Both were painters committed to social justice who appear to…

Two images show "the world of tomorrow" at General Motors' famous exhibit for the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. Gleaming skyscrapers evoke the recently constructed Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Its multi-laned highways, however, still…

A photo of a group of men who worked for the Genesee Wyoming railroad, which provided transportation for the salt mined in Retsof

Abernathy (1873-1956) was a landscape painter whose work is located at the New Deal Gallery, Mt. Morris. In order to support herself, she also was an art instructor at various colleges: Belmont College (TN), Stanford Female College (KY), Columbia…