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Still Image
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Original Format
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Dry plate negative
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Title
A name given to the resource
Upper Genesee Falls, Rochester NY
Format
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jpeg, 1.1 MB
jpeg, 5.3 MB
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph from a now-defunct news service company shows the High Falls area of Genesee River. At right we see the Gorsline Building that housed three main manufacturing operations at this time: Williams, Hoyt & Co. (a maker of shoes); the Rochester Folding Box Company; and Genesee Lithographic. Previously at this location had been the Steam Gauge and Lantern Works factory. In 1888 a major fire destroyed the building and killed an estimated 34 men and boys. Note: there are two images here, a slightly cropped image of a smaller file size, and a larger file of the original image.
Creator
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Detroit Publishing Co.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1905
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2016805433" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><www.loc.gov/item/2016805433/></a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Genesee River
Gorsline Building
High Falls
Rochester, NY
Upper Falls
Watersheds
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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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Lithograph
Physical Dimensions
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38.5 x 51 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
The Upper Falls of the Genesee at Rochester NY from the East
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Young, John T., 1814-1842 (artist)
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870 (lithographer)
Publisher
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C & M Morse
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1836
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "[The upper falls of the Genesee at Rochester N.Y. from the east.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-7c25-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Format
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jpeg, 906 KB
Type
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Still image
Description
An account of the resource
Somewhat idealized view of Rochester's High Falls has cattle grazing peacefully in the foreground of this print. The "Mercury" statue at rear center, however, dates the scene after 1881--which is when the Kimball Tobacco Factory commissioned it. By that point the High Falls area already had many more factories and mills than is pictured; the area had been an industrial center for several decades.
Genesee River
High Falls
Rochester, NY
Watersheds
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
9.5 x 33 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Genesee River View
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Haines Photo Co., Conneaut, Ohio
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662056/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA</a>
Format
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jpeg, 896 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Description
An account of the resource
Wide-angle panorama of looks west where the Erie Canal crosses the aqueduct at present-day Broad Street. Its course points toward the tower of Rochester's city hall. Directly across the Genesee we see factory of Cluett Peabody & Co., manufacturer of Arrow Shirt Collars; the smokestack to its right is topped by a statue of Mercury, created in 1881 for the Kimball Tobacco Co. formerly at this location. To the left, Court Street Bridge has railroad terminals on either side of the Genesee: on this side, the Lehigh Valley (still standing today as Dinosaur Bar B Que restaurant); on the far side the Erie Railroad. The sign at near right for the "People's Safety Show" probably dates the photo to 1914, advertising an exposition on worker safety at the Rochester Convention Center.
Cluett Peabody & Co.
Erie Canal
Erie Railroad
Genesee River
Lehigh Valley Rail Road
Rochester, NY
Watersheds
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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
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
View of Sea Breeze, One of Rochester's Beautiful Summer Resorts
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Rochester News Company
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907-1915
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 654 KB
jpeg, 399 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
Overlooking Lake Ontario, this amusement park has remained in operation since its opening in 1879--making it America's fourth-oldest such operation. It originated as a trolly destination in an era without air conditioning; temperatures due to the lake-breeze effect could be 10 degrees cooler. In the postcard we see travelers on the Rochester & Suburban Railway debarking upon company land, anticipating various concessions and by the time of this photograph several rides--including carousels and a figure-eight roller coaster.
In 1920 Sea Breeze built its famous wooden "Jack Rabbit" roller coaster, currently the second-oldest one in the US. Through financial challenges, new owners, destructive fires, and social change it has managed to remain open and share its pleasures with new generations.
Amusement Park
Irondequoit, NY
Lake Ontario
Post Card
Rochester, NY
Sea Breeze
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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
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Public Market, Rochester NY
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1909-12-03
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 552 KB
jpeg, 469 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
At the time of this photograph in the early 1900s, Rochester's public market had been in operation for more than seventy years. Initially located on Main Street just west of the Genesee River, it opened in 1827 and then moved to its current location on Union Street in 1905. Thus, the postcard depicts a modern facility supplied by farmers who have traveled via horse and wagon. It wasn't until 1913 that the City of Rochester allowed farmers to sell directly to the public, so this scene is best appreciated as a brokers' market.
In the years since, it has remained viable despite the emergence of huge (suburban) grocery chains that doomed public markets in other cities. Today, an estimated 2.4 million people visit the market annually, perhaps 40,000 on a busy Saturday. It remains one of the most economically and culturally diverse locations in the Rochester metropolitan area, and recently has undergone renovations such that a new outdoor shed closely resembles the one pictured on this postcard.
market
Post Card
Public Market
Rochester, NY
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Title
A name given to the resource
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
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lower Falls of the Genesee, Rochester NY
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 663 KB
jpeg, 331 KB
Publisher
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Scrantom Wetmore & Co., Publishers
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1905-1910
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
Five miles downstream from here, the Genesee River empties into Lake Ontario at Charlotte, and the base of the falls has been a major spawning ground for salmon and lake trout until non-native fish like the alewife reduced their numbers. <a href="https://openvalley.org/exhibits/show/seth-green--home-waters">The fisherman Seth Green</a> ran a large commercial operation nearby in the lower gorge; ironically, his success also contributed to declining stocks and led to his experiments in pisciculture and eventually a fish hatchery located in Caledonia, NY. <br /><br />At the time of this photograph, an extensive engineering project recently had constructed Rochester Gas & Electric's Hydro Station #15--a portion of which is shown at left--and transformed the falls themselves. An 80-foot long concrete facing raised the falls to a height of 96 feet and created an intake dam 17 feet in depth. The building at right is a remaining part of the settlement called McCrackenville, chartered in 1821 and best known as an industrial site: flour and paper milling, carpet-making, furniture manufacture, a tannery. In 1850 the city of Rochester annexed the land as part of its plans for residential development along Lake Avenue; eventually it was remade as Lower Falls Park, from which visitors have a spectacular view of the gorge.
Genesee River
Lower Falls, Rochester
McCrackenville
pisciculture
Post Card
Rochester Gas and Electric
Rochester, NY
Seth Green
Watershed
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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
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Middle Falls of the Genesee, Rochester NY
Publisher
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Souvenir Post Card Co., NY
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1909-08-18
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 736 KB
jpeg, 465 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
A mile and a half downstream from Rochester's Upper Falls (later, "High Falls"), its Middle Falls originally had a height of 25 feet and were featured in Thomas Davies' 1768 engraving of the area. Here, we see one of two masonry dams built at the site. In 1917, one of the old dams was demolished to build a new moveable one, whose primary function now was to channel water through a tunnel--20 feet in diameter, 1500 feet long--to a generating station located at the base of Lower Falls.
That dam project may cause the "Middle Falls" to lose its designation as a waterfall, considered an "historical" one instead.
Dam
Genesee River
Middle Falls, Rochester
Rochester, NY
Waterfalls
Watershed
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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
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kodak Park, Home of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester NY
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Manson News Agency
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1930-1945
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 628 KB
jpeg, 259 KB
Description
An account of the resource
Following the success of George Eastman's introduction of affordable cameras, the company's manufacturing infrastructure expanded rapidly. Postcard announces Rochester company as the "largest industry of its kind in the world." At its height in the mid-1960s, Kodak Park was comprised of 1,300 acres on a parcel four miles long, and housed 140 manufacturing buildings. At this location Kodak manufactured film, photographic paper, processing chemicals, magnetic tape, and some 4,000 other "research chemicals." 20,000 employees worked there, so the company's description of Kodak Park as "virtually a city within a city" was justified. <br /><br />As a consequence of its chemical production, Kodak Park also had an outsized ecological footprint--one that became increasingly public by the 1980s in the wake of Love Canal. Dioxin, methylene chloride, and many other hazardous wastes led to its status as (by far) the largest polluter in Western New York. Between 1974 and 2007, Kodak secretly operated a small nuclear reactor; in 2013 it was revealed that the company had buried radioactive waste at the western edge of this complex. The two large smokestacks at the photo's center were part of a coal-fired electrical plant that burned perhaps 600,000 tons of coal per year generting up to 200 megawatts--the equivalent of a city of 200,000. In 2018, one of only three such plants in New York state, converted to natural gas (also a fossil fuel). <br /><br />Several buildings were demolished, the plot of land was renamed Eastman Business Park, and its chemical reckoning continues.<br /><br />Works Consulted: Eastman Kodak, <em>The Kodak Park Works</em><em>: Where Kodak Film, Papers, and Chemicals are Made</em> (1964)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Coal
Eastman kodak company
Genesee River
George Eastman
Kodak Park
Pollution
Post Card
Rochester, NY
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Title
A name given to the resource
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
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Upper Falls, Genesee River, Rochester NY
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Rochester News Co.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Courtesy Ken Cooper
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 608 KB
jpeg, 343 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
At nearly 100 feet in height, the "High Falls" were a determining factor in the location of Rochester. Mills took advantage of the drop and the Genesee River's water flow in the form of mills, beginning in 1807 and especially in the years following construction of Brown's Race--which enabled numerous mills to operate along the western banks. Less than a mile upriver, the Erie Canal was routed so as to pass near this important manufacturing and milling location. At one point Rochester was milling more than 500,000 barrels of wheat flour per year before the wheat midge drastically curtailed production in the Genesee Valley.
In the postcard, at left of the falls is Rochester Gas and Electric's Hydro Station #4 (since abandoned), and crossing the river is a New York Central Railroad viaduct. At right is the Gorsline Building, reconstructed in 1888 as a shoe factory after a major fire that killed perhaps 35 workers. Structural problems nearly led to its demolition, but it was partially demolished and renovated during the late 1990s for use as office space.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1934
Genesee River
High Falls
Mill
New York Central Railroad
Post Card
Rochester Gas and Electric
Rochester, NY
Upper Falls
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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
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.5 x 5 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sheep Scene, Genesee Valley Park, Rochester NY
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Courtesy Ken Cooper
Description
An account of the resource
South Park, later taking its current name of Genesee Valley Park, was one of the last designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted prior to his retirement. Work began in 1888, and in 1893 he suggested keeping a flock of sheep on its west side to evoke a pastoral mood and to keep the grass mowed. Flocks of sheep weren't uncommon at the time; the Sheep Field in Olmsted's central park started the trend in 1863, but the also were grazed in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Franklin Park in Boston, Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, and Washington Park in Chicago.
The sheep didn't remain for long, however, because in 1899 the pasture was converted into a golf course that still is in operation today alongside the Genesee River.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 664 KB
jpeg, 476 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Frederick Law Olmsted
Genesee River
Genesee Valley Park
Pastoral
Rochester, NY
Watershed