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Harbor Island, Lake George, NY
David Johnson was a second-generation school of the Hudson River School who studied with Jasper Francis Cropsey and was friends with his contemporaries John Frederick Kensett and John William Casilear. This is one of several paintings Johnson made of…
Lake Iroquois
This map shows the approximate outline of a proglacial lake dating some 13,000 years ago, when the Laurentide ice sheet was in retreat and blocked water from flowing north into the North Atlantic Ocean. Instead, its outlet was diverted through…
Tags: Lake Iroquois; Lake Ontario; Ridge Road; Watersheds
Dorothy and Toto's green spectacles
This cropped illustration appears in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy and her companions reach the Emerald City. There they meet the Guardian of the Gate, who outfits them with green spectacles to protect them from the glare…
An Astronaut's View from Space
Photograph taken (and tweeted) from the International Space Station just after sunset, over the ocean according to Wiseman. This image appears in OpenValley to populate a timeline created for the Green New Deal: Social Surrealism exhibit.
Tags: Aerial view; astronaut; earth; NASA; satellite imagery
Tea Table Overlook
A pair of optical viewer look upstream at this viewpoint in Letchworth State Park. Until 1950 a distinctive rock formation gave this location its name.
Flooding at Sodus Point, NY
Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 105th Military Police Company construct a sandbag barrier to protect property at Sodus Point, N.Y. from flooding due to rising waters on Lake Ontario on May 22, 2017.
Tags: flood; Lake Iroquois; Lake Ontario; Sodus Point, NY; Watersheds
An Apple Orchard Survey of Wayne County, NY
This item consists of seven photographs selected from an in-depth survey of New York's apple industry, specifically farms in Wayne County. The bulletin was published under the auspices of Cornell University's Department of Horticulture and as such…
Tags: Apples; Lake Ontario; Orchards; Watersheds; Wayne County, NY
Black River Falls, Watertown NY
During the 19th century it was estimated that the Black River generated some 135,000 horsepower along its course during the dry season. Just within the city limits of Watertown, NY the river dropped 110 feet, meaning that manufacturing concerns…
Tags: Black River; Engraving; Waterfalls; Watersheds; Watertown, NY
Storm King on the Hudson
Picturesque massif on the Hudson River has earned its name due to frequently being mantled with dramatic clouds. This feature made it a favorite subject of 19th-century painters. Colman's composition is quite complex, however, since it renders both…