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Still Image
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Screenshot of VR map overview
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Title
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Virtual Cabinet of Art and Curiosity
Description
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As the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT explains: "European Cabinets of Art and Curiosity were places of universal learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....They were the museums of their time, offering visitors first-hand knowledge of the far-away world through objects they could see with their own eyes, and touch with their own hands."<br /><br />In 2015 the museum opened their own Cabinet from various materials that had been collected during the 20th century, in particular objects donated by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917. It took an additional step by creating a <em>virtual </em>rendering of the Cabinet that can be viewed online. This screenshot shows an overview map of that synthetic space, which can be viewed by following <a href="https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/virtual-tours/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this link</a>. <br /><br />It is of interest to OpenValley due to questions about the underlying logic of musuem and gallery spatial tours, which are addressed in the story map <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b8ffee99687346339977f9c0dad81264" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>African Past: Migrant Future</em></a>.
Creator
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Roth, Linda
Coulon, Francois
Publisher
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Wadsworth Atheneum
French American Museum Exchange (FRAME)
Date
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2018
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
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<a href="https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=YS3dmtEJDW2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wadsworth Atheneum</a>
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jpeg, 188 KB
Type
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Still image
Cabinet of Curiosity
Map
Museum
Virtual Reality
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Map
Physical Dimensions
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80 x 56 cm
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Title
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Composite Map of New York State, 1899
Creator
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Cram, George Franklin (1841-1928)
Publisher
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Geo. F. Cram
Date
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1899
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<em>Cram's Standard American Railway System Atlas of the World</em><br /><br /><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~352937~90120236:Composite-Map--New-York---Western-h?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/where%2FNew%2BYork;q:new%20york%20state%20counties;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=184#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</a>
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jpeg, 2.5 MB <br /><br />jpeg, 238 KB
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Still image
Description
An account of the resource
Although appearing in an atlas focused upon railway systems, this composite image of Western and Eastern New York state also features political boundaries, counties, towns, railroads, steamship lines, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands.
Atlas
Map
New York State
Railroads
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Map
Physical Dimensions
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11 x 8 in.
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Title
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Map of the Island of Nantucket
Description
An account of the resource
In his 1782 collection of essays, <em>Letters from an American Farmer</em>, <span class="mw-page-title-main">Hector St. John de Crèvecœur described the Cape Cod region as a kind of microcosm of social transformations occurring in North America. "What has happened here has and will happen everywhere else," he wrote; given "the full rewards of their industry" farmers were like an undammed stream "spreading plenty and cheerfulness" across the continent. </span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Crèvecœur</span> included this map as a visual aid to his argument. He tell us it was created by James Tupper, "son of the sheriff of the island." What follows is a tour of Nantucket accompanied by glowing descriptions of a new world created by small yeoman farmers. Note: image has been lightly color corrected for better visability.
Creator
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Tupper, James
Publisher
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Thomas Davies
Date
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1782
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/lettersfromameri00instjo/page/n144/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of Internet Archive</a>
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jpeg, 1.9 MB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
James Tupper
Map
Nantucket, MA
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Printed map
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Title
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Atlantic Coast Stream of Migrant Farm Workers
Creator
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U.S. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
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1955-01
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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William H. Metzler, <em>Migratory Farm Workers in the Atlantic Coast Stream: A Study in the Belle Glade Area of Florida</em> (Circular #966), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jan. 1955.
Description
An account of the resource
Map shows a somewhat idealized pattern of migrant farm labor on the east coast during the mid-twentieth century. As many as an estimated 58,000 workers in 1949 followed harvests northward. They were primarily Black, and worked in "areas of intensive vegetable and fruit production with high labor requirements" (4). In New York state, those crops usually were potatoes and apples. Seasonal migration declined along with the number of farms and a tendency for workers to remain year-round in a particular location.
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jpeg, 557 KB
Type
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Still image
Agriculture
farming
Geneseo Migrant Center -
Map
migrant workers
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Map
Physical Dimensions
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102 x 85 cm
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Title
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Village of Perry, Wyoming County, New York
Date
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1902?
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Library of Congress <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2010593270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lccn.loc.gov/2010593270</a>
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jpeg, 3.3 MB
jpeg, 12.7 MB
gif, 38.7 MB
Description
An account of the resource
This is a hybrid map typical of its time. It embeds cartography--including street names, property and water rights ownership, sewage lines and fire hydrants--within an advertising framework. Taken altogether it provides a useful snapshot of the Perry business community at the turn of the century. <br /><br />Note: this item consists of smaller and larger jpeg files, along with an animated gif that was created for the purpose of an exhibit page on "The Living Mill."
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
advertising
Map
Perry, NY
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Title
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Perry Knitting Co.
Description
An account of the resource
This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
Contributor
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Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Lithographed maps
Physical Dimensions
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25 x 17 cm
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Title
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Cotton Spinning Mills, 1880-1926
Creator
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Paullin, Charles O.
Wright, John K.
Publisher
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
American Geographical Society of New York
Date
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1932
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<em>Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States</em>. By Charles O. Paullin, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Edited by John K. Wright, Librarian, American Geographical Society of New York. Published Jointly by Carnegie Institution of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York, 1932.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~248427~5516148:Plate-136--Manufacturing--Cotton-Sp?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/when%2F1932;q:cotton;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</a>
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jpeg, 808 KB
jpeg, 831 KB
Description
An account of the resource
Two maps from an historical atlas show the rise of a southern textile industry, especially during the early 20th century. By 1926, the long-dominant New England region of textile manufactures was about even with the south; in another twenty years it had been almost entirely supplanted.
This item consists of two plates from the historical atlas that have been cropped.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Cotton
industrialization
Map
Perry Knitting Co.
Textiles
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Title
A name given to the resource
Perry Knitting Co.
Description
An account of the resource
This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
Contributor
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Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Lithographed Map
Physical Dimensions
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33 x 22 cm
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Title
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US Cotton Production, 1900
Description
An account of the resource
Map illustrates US Census data as to cotton production per square mile. As of this time, the "Cotton Kingdom" of Frederick Law Olmstead's 1861 book still is similar in its geographical extent. In the decades ahead production would shift westward to Texas.
Creator
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Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914
Publisher
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US Census Office
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1903
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~32218~1151560:165--Cotton-sq--mile-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/when%2F1903;q:cotton;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=2&trs=11#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 1.8 MB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Cotton
Map
Perry Knitting Co.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Perry Knitting Co.
Description
An account of the resource
This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
Contributor
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Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
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
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Map
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fire Insurance Map of Perry Knitting Co., 1900
Description
An account of the resource
Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled accurate assessment of fire risk. They remain valuable tools for historical research because they were updated frequently. For the PKC, we have maps from the years <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1680" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1884</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1683" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1894</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1906</a>, and <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1913</a>. Taken together, they document a period of growth for the company. <br /><br />In this cropped image, we see that a building boom has continued for PKC during the six years since the 1894 map. What came to be known as Mill #2 has been built on to Mill #1, with the functions of knitting and finishing (a different map gives its construction date as 1893). There are now electric, not gas, lights in the factory. Across Water St. are new buildings for storage and for manufacturing paper boxes, presumably for shipping its products. What will become Mill #3 is in the process of construction, with its own power plant. And the company has added an Office to coordinate its growing operations. Three "fly-over" passageways connect various buildings.
Creator
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Sanborn Map Company
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900-03
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division<br />Digital ID #<a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701900">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701900</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 1.8 MB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Map
Perry Knitting Co.
Perry, NY
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
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https://openvalley.org/files/original/37210943fa261d548063696382b2ea46.jpg
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Perry Knitting Co.
Description
An account of the resource
This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
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
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Map
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fire Insurance Map of Perry Knitting Co., 1894
Description
An account of the resource
Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled accurate assessment of fire risk. They remain valuable tools for historical research because they were updated frequently. For the PKC, we have maps from the years <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1680" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1884</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1900</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1906</a>, and <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1913</a>. Taken together, they document a period of growth for the company. <br /><br />In this cropped image, we see that since 1884 the mill has constructed a separate wash house and picker house to process incoming cotton. We learn that the coal power plant has doubled from 40 to 80hp. The company states that "85 hands" are employed at the mill." Now its six floors are organized like this:<br />
<ol>
<li>Sorting</li>
<li>Knitting</li>
<li>Finishing & Seaming</li>
<li>Carding</li>
<li>Spinning</li>
<li>Drying & Brushing</li>
</ol>
Perhaps most crucially, the map reveals that PKC has installed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Grinnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Grinnell Sprinklers,"</a> generally considered the first effective automatic system. Downstream the Cataract Custom Mill, operated by J.B. Hutton, continues operation and states that for fire insurance purposes "protection can be had from knitting mill."
Creator
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Sanborn Map Company
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1894-08
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division<br />Digital ID #<a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701894">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701894</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 1.3 MB
Map
Perry Knitting Co.
Perry, NY
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
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Title
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Perry Knitting Co.
Description
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This collection gathers documents for a Perry Knitting Co. exhibit on OpenValley. They are drawn from from three main sources.<br /><br />First, the Clark Rice Photography Collection at the Perry, NY Public Library. Rice was a prolific photographer in Western New York throughout the mid-20th century. This collection includes scans of his work, and copies of images from the turn of the century photographer Merrium Crocker, whose studio Rice purchased. <br /><br />Secondly, the Henry Page Local History Files. Page was president of First National Bank of Perry, and a local historian associated with the public library for nearly five decades. His uncle, William, had helped secure funding from the Carnegie Corporation for its establishment in 1900 and construction in 1914. The Page collection contains various historical materials and photographs accumulated by him over the years.<br /><br />Thirdly, we draw upon various public domain texts, such as maps from the Library of Congress or <a href="http://perrypubliclibrary.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitized articles from local newspapers</a>. All images here are selections from these collections, chosen for their relevance to OpenValley project. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Perry Public Library and its Director, Jessica Pacciotti.
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Meghan Cobo, Ken Cooper, Michaelena Ferraro, Melisha Gatlin, Andrew Gleason, Macaire Lisicki, Ben Michalak, Ethan Pelletier, Emma Raupp, Mariah Rockwell.
Special thanks to Jessica Pacciotti at the Perry Public Library.
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Map
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Title
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Fire Insurance Map of Perry Knitting Co., 1906
Description
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Sanborn Map Company created extremely detailed renderings (1:600 scale) for the purposes of fire insurance underwriters. Important details like building use, construction materials, water supplies, power plant, sprinkler systems, and more enabled accurate assessment of fire risk. They remain valuable tools for historical research because they were updated frequently. For the PKC, we have maps from the years <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1680" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1884</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1683" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1894</a>, <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1900</a>, and <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1913</a>. Taken together, they document a period of growth for the company. <br /><br />In this cropped image, we see continued indications that PKC is growing into a much larger firm and requiring additional storage space to stockpile fuel, supplies, and finished products prior to shipment. Mill #3 has been completed, but already a yarn mill expansion is under construction. What comes to be known as Mill #4 is constructed of brick (perhaps due to insurance considerations) and is making paper boxes. Now we're up to six "fly-over" passageways connecting the manufacturing site.
Creator
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Sanborn Map Company
Date
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1906-01
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division<br />Digital ID #<a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701906">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804pm.g3804pm_g061701906</a>
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Type
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Still image
Map
Perry Knitting Co.
Perry, NY
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map