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William Cooper founded the village of Cooperstown in 1786, and in 1799 built a large mansion inherited by his son, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper. It was located near the outlet of Otsego Lake, the beginning of the Susquehanna River. A…

Uppermost image shows the outside of the Perry Knitting Co., and groups of workers: men walk together, women walk in a procession carrying umbrellas. In the corner of the picture, there is part of a horse drawn carriage or buggy of sorts. Electrical…

Number 33 on the Burleigh map, by the time of panorama's publication Outterson & Lee's firm had been dissolved, settling all debts in April 1892. In 1878 George Outterson opened "a saloon and restaurant under Grant's meat market"; it's unclear…

We see a dock or port building with two ships moored. Jones uses ink sparingly, but cross-hatches aggressively to convey the dark paint of the dock and shadows on the water. For lighter objects, he implies more than illustrates shape through his…

According to the Rice Collection annotation, &quot;The Mill sponsored a bowling team and these six individuals went to the 28th Annual New York State Championship Tournament, held in Niagara Falls in 1961.&quot; <br /> <br /> Pictured from left to right are: Melanie…

Promotional photo shows Federal Art Project painter in his studio putting the final touches on his portrait of Floyd Bennett, created for a new airfield near Brooklyn named after the aviation pioneer. A World War I pilot, Bennett was best known for…

Artist best known for his landscape paintings is shown here at about age 28, in a yearbook photo from Monmouth College, IL. At the time Patterson was an &quot;instructor of water color and drawing.&quot; He went on to teach at many other colleges to help…

Photograph of an unidentified painting, probably by Juan Cavazos. A self-taught painter, Cavazos traveled from Mexico for employment as a migrant farmworker in Western New York. With support from the Geneseo Migrant Center and the MollyOlga Art…

In the summer of 1820, Wall toured the Hudson River and painted a series of watercolors that then would be etched and issued to subscribers in series of four prints. The text accompanying this images reads: &quot;The Pallisadoes consist of a line of…

Located at the confluence of two rivers, Binghamton at the time of this photograph was a rapidly growing town of nearly 50,000 inhabitants. We look across the Chenago River and see the Barlow, Rogers Company (one of the largest cigar manufacturers in…