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Washington is depicted as a beneficent gentleman farmer of his Mt. Vernon estate in Virginia, surrounded by a well-ordered operation, its overseer, happy workers, and two children playing in the foreground. The image is part of a five-part series…

A table, whose covering appears to have been warped, becomes the space for an arrangement of anemones in a copper vase suspended by a thin spiraled black steel stand. An ashtray accompanies the flowers on the table, standing in the foreground. Cool…

The Raquette River has its headwaters at the outlet of Raquette Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains, and flows 146 miles to the St. Lawrence River. It passes through numerous marshes and small lakes; both before and after European arrival, it has been…

Three human figures soar against an idealized representation of cosmological objects: stars, comets, nebulae. The contrast between the void of space and luminous objects is extreme. Muscular bodies and the etching's visual style owe something to the…

A Black man in an all-black suit, paired with a top hat just off center in the foreground of the image, pushes a loaded cart down what seems to be an alley. The cart sports two miniature American flags at the end, and the three-wheeled wagon’s path…

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…