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Erie Preserving Company, Buffalo NY
A fruit and vegetable preserving company, through the changes in its logo from 1881 to 1885, shows the increasing emphasis of railroads to food systems.
Kief's Diner
Small lunch car run by Otto Kiefer was located on the Park Square in Avon, NY, perhaps as early as 1926. Born in Cohocton and raised in Wayland, Kiefer moved to Silver Creek, NY as the manager of an electric company. It was here that he probably…
Stereopticon card: Middle Fall of Genesee, at Portage, NY
From a series titled "View on the Line of Erie Railway," this early photograph of Middle Falls shows the environmental effects of a sawmill located there. After purchasing this tract of land in 1859, William Pryor Letchworth began a long program of…
Sheep Scene, Genesee Valley Park, Rochester NY
South Park, later taking its current name of Genesee Valley Park, was one of the last designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted prior to his retirement. Work began in 1888, and in 1893 he suggested keeping a flock of sheep on its west…
Wintertime at the Perry Knitting Co. in the wake of renovation.
Wintertime at the Perry Knitting Company after the heating plant had been torn down, taken from Walnut Street, showing the part of the mill that had burned down.
Machinery responsible for dying yarn and material prior to independent Manufacturing by Perry Knitting Co.
Picture showing one of the many machines that I could have been used in dying the yarn prior to the material being manufactured by the Perry Knitting Company.<br />
Perry Knitting Co. cloth manufacturing machinery/industrial equipment.
Picture depicts the machinery used in the manufacturing of cloth at the Perry Knitting Co. Pictures could have also been take after the decision to close Perry Knitting Company was reached. Clark was hired to take pictures of the equipment that was…