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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…
Sketch Map of Letchworth Park
Executive Secretary of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society created map immediately following William P. Letchworth's gift of his Glen Iris estate to New York. It reflected "certain new drives designed to give greater accessibility…
Railroad Bridge, Portage
Famous Erie Railroad viaduct over Upper Falls at Portage, located in present-day Letchworth State Park, accompanied W. S. Ward's essay "The Valley of the Genesee."
Postcard Mount Morris Dam Letchworth State Park, Western New York
Handcolored illustration of Mount Morris Dam appears on the front of the postcard. No back to card.
Portage Bridge from Inspiration Point, Letchworth State Park, N.Y.
Hand-colored postcard shows Genesee River Gorge from Inspiration Point, also featuring at left the Genesee Valley Canal and in the distance the Erie Railroad's Portage viaduct.<br />
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Genesee Gorge Series No. 19
Pioneer Cemetery, Letchworth State Park
Small plot comprised early settlers' graves, some of which originally were located on the south lawn of the Glen Iris Inn and relocated by William Pryor Letchworth.
Picnic Shelter, Letchworth State Park
A picnic shelter built by the Civilian Conservation Corps at Letchworth State Park, near the Lower Falls
Perry, NY, Wyoming Co., 1892
From a vantage point looking westward, we see the town of approximately 3,000 about a century after its first settlers began arriving following the 1797 Big Tree treaty. Incorporated in 1814, Perry initially was an agricultural area that increasingly…
Natural Stone Wall
A natural rock wall in the canyon of the Lower Falls at Letchworth State Park.
Middle Falls, Portage
View of the most famous waterfall in present-day Letchworth State Park accompanied W. S. Ward's essay "The Valley of the Genesee."