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Labor shortages on Western New York farms during World War II led to various programs for making up the shortfall: the "Farm Cadets" youth program; calls for community volunteers; guest workers from Jamaica and the Bahamas; and prisoner of war labor.…

The Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY was originally displayed in a high-traffic area in front of a railroad station. The statue was later transported to Highland Park.

Samuel Ferrara, Leslie Fenn, Russell Shaughnessy, and Robert Courch pose for a photo at the Perry Knitting Company. A picture of the Mill hangs on the wall behind them. All have "suggested changes in production control and materials handling and have…

Depicted is the landmark Bethesda Fountain located in New York City's Central Park. The fountain is adorned by a bronze statue with small figures that appear to support the winged figure. Bethesda is a biblical reference to a pool that is believed to…

This site at the mouth of the Niagara River always has had a strategic importance: prior to European contact as the beginning of a portage around impassable rapids and falls; then as the French Fort Conti built in 1678; then as a reconstructed Fort…

The Ford Garage was owned by Fred Watkins and Frank McKurth. The partners first operated a grocery store at 100 Main St. and secured a Ford dealership there in 1912. The business must have been successful, for the building pictured here at #22-24…

Aunt Cookie’s is one of Geneseo’s most popular businesses. This short prose piece is the feeling you get when walking into the restaurant and how at home it makes you feel.

A two-story fly-over walkway bridges Water Street and connects Mill No. 1 and Mill No. 5. Annotations from the late 1940s or early '50s tell a story about the open door, seen to the left. At that door, factory 'seconds', or slightly defective…

Winograd uses a post-impressionist framework to depict household objects and the geometry of their surrounding space. Shapes are disrupted by vertical lines (like the pears and pitchers) or become radically abstracted (like green leaves as…