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North American Hotel
Scan of an 1891 photograph of the North American Hotel in Rochester, NY.
George L Peabody's Barns
"George L. Peabody's barns Canadice, NY as they were in 1986 across the road from the house"
Recipe for Lobster Curry on State Agricultural Society Letterhead
This is a recipe that is written upon the letterhead of the State Agricultural Society. The names of all the former presidents are at the top of the letterhead; also, the recipe contains quite a few exotic ingredients. There is also a series of…
G. D. Dooer Letterhead
This butcher in Avon, NY did business with the Wadsworth family in the later 19th century
Dorlcote Mill, as envisioned for an edition of George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss"
Set in the early 18th century, Eliot's rural locale is subjected to changes wrought by industrialization
Ashantee Mills, 1902
This detail from a 1902 maps shows the Littleville area on Conesus Creek, near the village of Avon NY
The Miller's Will
Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings<br />
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The Miller's Will · The New Lost City Ramblers<br />
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New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 4<br />
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℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1962 Folkways Records<br />
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Released on: 1962-01-01<br />
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The Farmery of Farmer Snug and Farmer Slack
The moral virtue of tidiness meets agriculture in this famous diptych from Solon Robinson's "Facts for Farmers" (1864), one of many visions of the model farm
Nursery Labels, 1868
19th growers traditionally used pencils on pine labels to identify their stock, but the development of printing presses led to mass-produced tags--a microcosm of revolutionary "branding" that was occurring to foods of all kinds.