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Still Image
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Original Format
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Oil painting
Physical Dimensions
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24 x 36 in.
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Title
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Summer Day on Conesus Lake
Format
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jpeg, 908 KB
Date
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1870
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Creator
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Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872
Source
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<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>
Description
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A placid scene along the shore of this Finger Lake depicts men and women—there are no children present—at their leisure in genteel dress. Small groups are picnicking, lounging, boating, and perhaps courting.
Kensett, a second-generation painter in the Hudson River School tradition, still evokes beautiful landscapes but with a more modulated emotion than the sublime work of his predecessors. Moreover, many of the notable visual effects here point to humans in the landscape. A beam of light illuminates the white dress of one woman at center left; other points of light in the trees imply other small dramas. At right along the opposite shore there is the hint of a sailboat. And in the background a ray of light cuts across the lake.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Conesus Lake
Hudson River School
John Frederick Kensett
Landscape Art
painting
Watersheds
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Title
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Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Postcard
Physical Dimensions
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3.5 x 5 in.
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Title
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Old Water Wheel, Lakeville NY
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 878 KB
jpeg, 522 KB
Publisher
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F. M. Acker, Lakeville NY
Date
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1913-07-30?
Type
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Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
Postcard shows view of a decrepit water wheel, almost certainly located at the outlet of Conesus Lake where it becomes Conesus Creek. If so, then the photograph shows remnants of what had been a broom-handle factory operated by L.P. West, then upgraded by Henry Spencer during the 1880s to include manufacture of pumps, ladders, and farm gates. Spencer also added steam power so as to continue operations during times of low water flow. But by 1895 or 1896 the business had faded away but not, as the photo suggests, interest in its picturesque water wheel.
Conesus Creek
Conesus Lake
Genesee River
Lakeville, NY
Mill
Watershed
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Postcard
Physical Dimensions
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3.5 x 5 in
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Title
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Five Arch Bridge, Avon NY
Publisher
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Rochester News Company
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1910-1920?
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 771 KB
jpeg, 310 KB
Type
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Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
200-foot stone viaduct was constructed by the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad sometime around 1856-57, crossing the outlet of Conesus Lake not far from where that creek joins the Genesee River. By 1859 the planned rail line between Mt. Morris and Rochester had been completed, but it struggled financially and eventually was leased to the Erie Railroad beginning in 1873.
The viaduct's use of wooden timbers, visible in this photograph, led to ongoing structural concerns and perhaps accounts for the rail line's conversion to a small electric commuter route, which operated 13 runs daily between Mt. Morris and Rochester starting in 1907 and lasting into the late 1930s. The tracks were torn up in 1940 due to declining ridership in the age of automobiles, but the Five Arch Bridge has had an afterlife as a symbol of Avon history.
Avon, NY
Conesus Creek
Conesus Lake
Erie Railroad
Five Arch Bridge
Genesee River
Genesee Valley Railroad
Railroads
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Illustration
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Title
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Geneseo Water Works
Description
An account of the resource
Designed by J. Nelson Tubbs, amalgam of illustrations shows 1) the intake site on Conesus Lake, 2) an elevation profile of the supply pipe to the village reservoir, 3) a diagram of the reservoir, and 4) an enlarged section of the reservoir. The system was built in 1887.
Creator
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Tubbs, J. Nelson (1832-1909)
Date
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1891-04-04
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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"Engineering Record, Building Record And Sanitary Engineer" 32 (1890-91): 294
Format
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jpeg, 454 KB
Conesus Lake
Geneseo
Geneseo Water Works
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Title
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Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Paper map
Physical Dimensions
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11.8 x 15.7
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Title
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Mills Along Conesus Creek, 1829
Description
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Detail from David H. Burr's "Map of the County of Livingston" shows the location of five different mills via icon. Captions have been added to identify their names.
Creator
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Burr, David H. (1803-1875)
Publisher
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Rawdon, Wright & Co
Date
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1829
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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David Rumsey Map Collection
Format
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jpeg, 2.1 MB
Type
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Map
Conesus Creek
Conesus Lake
David Burr
Genesee River
Glen Avon Mills
Map
mills
Triphammer Mill