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“City Landscape” uses a beautiful palette of earth tones set against concrete infrastructure, especially an overpass that curves across the sky. Beneath that new automotive world, a jumbled cluster of buildings appears at left. It's difficult to tell…

Breakneck Ridge is located in the Hudson Highlands, directly across the river from Storm King Mountain. Its distinctive stony face was picturesque, albeit quarried for granite by the 19th century. It posed a major obstacle in plans to build a…

16 images at GSA.

"Buried machinery in barn lot in Dallas, South Dakota, United States during the Dust Bowl, an agricultural, ecological, and economic disaster in the Great Plains region of North America in 1936." -Andrew C.

This illustration from Eric Sloane's "Vanishing America" shows the sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing designs of hand-crafted millstones

Old Glass Factory depicts a rural landscape featuring a small unconventional factory settled within a deep valley. In the foreground, a dirt path curves from the lower left corner of the piece, drawing the viewer's eye into the midground and focus of…

Portrait of Samuel Warren (1797-1862), pioneer grape grower and winemaker of York, Livingston County, New York.

Watercolor and graphite composition captures the 1,000-ft. wide falls two miles upstream from where Mohawk joins the Hudson River. The name may derive from the Mohawk phrase "a canoe falling"--a wry bit of humor. According to an 1813 description, the…

The photo was matted to a 16×20 black board of Gus (the farmer picking potatoes) in Genesee County while living in East Bethany. This is common labor a migrant worker may expect in Western NY.

This simplified chart from US Census data shows how dramatically the location of cotton manufacturing in the US shifted from New England to the Southern states. There were several causes, including proximity to cotton fields, newer machinery, and…