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Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled…

This painting uses a curious system of perspective. Objects in the distance—like mountains, birds, a tall tree, or the sky above—appear more figurative and natural than those nearby. Closer by, where we might expect to see detail, are abstract…

Summer Breeze depicts a rural landscape arranged across a shallow but continuous picture plane. In the foreground, a pale dirt path curves from the lower right corner toward the center of the composition, cutting through an open field of grass. The…

From just the other side of a split rail fence, we look downhill to a pasture and then patchwork of fields in the valley below. A stream cuts across diagonally and passes under a covered bridge; a horse and foal stand in the foreground, with sheep…

Vivid colors are accentuated via the time of day at which this painting is set—either at sunrise or sunset—and by comparison to a pale blue sky. The titular “spring tree” probably is a cherry in bloom, but a taller one also seems to display blossoms.…

Golden light from low in the sky, at right, evokes a moment of gratitude for a year’s harvest—seemingly of corn shocks drying in the field. A person carrying a stick pause in front of one. Lush fields, green trees, and a gorgeous sky are shown to…

Dr. Stanley Rutherford briefly tells some changes of the Geneseo landscape over time with SUNY Geneseo’s organization “Heard @ Geneseo.” He speculates the impacts it had on the town. The oral interview was taken and transcribed by Katherine Russell,…

Circular disc is divided into four quadrants that offer glimpses into the lives of the Ruiz Pita family. Starting at the upper right and going counter-clockwise, we learn 1) that they work in cabbage fields; 2) that they are Mexican; 3) that the…

Looking northwest, major streets and features of a town whose growth was driven by America's first oil boom during the 1860s. Oil Creek is in the foreground, and the Oil Creek Rail Road is shown running south toward the oil region--although by this…

Created by the WPA poster division, it's not clear whether this sign is promoting a show at the New Deal Gallery, a show at some other location, or simply was used for traveling shows.