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Image of an updated sewing room at the PKC, outfitted with new overhead lights, likely to replace the natural light from windows. Middle table might also have new conveyor belt technology. A worker's purse/toolbox can be seen on the front left sewing…

The son of a Scottish immigrant, Hamilton was born 1832 in Le Roy and grew up on a farm. After a brief time spent as a teacher in the upper midwest, Hamilton returned to Caledonia, married Jane Vallance, and had five children. Hamilton was a leading…

A photo of the attendees of the Retsof company picnic on Conesus Lake in 1933

A map of the salt mine collapse in 1994 in Livingston County

Advertisement depicts farm apparatus manufactured by P.D. Wright of Rochester, NY. It was designed to rake hay, which needs to dry after cutting but is susceptible to rain--thus, raking and baling the hay quickly was important. In Western New York, a…

Number 23 on the Burleigh map, the blacksmith shop of Richard Reid (1860-1930) was an important source for the specialized implements of agriculture--both their forging and repair. Reid was born in Canada, then moved to America at age twenty and…

Rip Darcy is orphaned the son of a seafaring family and the protagonist of a 1938 book written by Jack O'Brien and illustrated by New Deal Gallery artist Bunty Witten. As the story opens Rip is found upon a deserted Pacific Island near Pago Pago,…

The late Dr. Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University was brought on as a consultant for African Past, Migrant Present. His requirements as stipulated in his contract were to look over the assembled collection for the gallery and to provide notes…

Founder of the Geneseo Migrant Center, Dr. Gloria Mattera, and President of SUNY Geneseo at the time, Robert W. MacVittie, are pictured in conversation at a 1973 summer workshop for teachers of migrant children. Dr. Mattera mentions that such…

Number 41 on the Burleigh map, unfortunately not much is known about this establishment--a not uncommon fate when it comes to butchers and history. Laidlaw's business was in operation at least by 1878, as this advertisement shows; by 1898 he worked…