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A natural rock wall in the canyon of the Lower Falls at Letchworth State Park.

Mandala forthrightly asserts that it was “Made by Timoteo Tzun Poros” during a Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS) workshop. Its design is based upon a shield created in 1871 that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Guatemalan…

At the time of this gallery show, Juan Cavazos was a 26-year-old migrant farm worker. He was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico and later made money sketching portraits in the taverns of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez. A CAMPS teacher named Annie…

Two blocks of tenement buildings dominate this urban scene, in hues of rusty brick, gray, and white. A slightly convex picture plane tilts down dark gray sidewalks and a street in the foreground to give them even greater prominence. Only a band of…

Floor plan to the influential art museum in Boston, MA shows not simply a series of galleries but an historical sequence that is displayed walking through the rooms. As Logan Ward suggests, visitors following a counter-clockwise route enact the…

This image is of the certification of Donald Fraser and Archibald Gillis's endowment of $150.00 for lots in Mumford Rural Cemetery. This certificate was signed by S.W. McDonald, secretary and treasurer of the Mumford Rural Cemetery Association, on…

This image from the early 1950s shows the construction of the dam at Mt. Morris. Prior to this time, areas along the Genesee River flooded annually. This mighty structure now helps regulate the river's volume.

In 1873 work began on a water system for the city of Rochester--an earlier one had failed due to poor construction--that would draw from Hemlock Lake in Livingston County, nearly thirty miles distant. By this point the growing city of some 70,000…

An empty field in Mt. Hope Cemetery, containing an unknown number of the patients from the Rochester State Hospital.