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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
Engraving
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Title
A name given to the resource
Black River Falls, Watertown NY
Format
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jpeg, 828 KB
Publisher
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L. H. Everts & Co.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1878
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Durant, Samuel W., and Henry B. Peirce, <em>History of Jefferson County, New York : With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers </em>(L. H. Everts, 1878): frontispiece. <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofjeffers00dura_0/page/n8">Web version available at Internet Archive.</a>
Description
An account of the resource
During the 19th century it was estimated that the Black River generated some 135,000 horsepower along its course during the dry season. Just within the city limits of Watertown, NY the river dropped 110 feet, meaning that manufacturing concerns generally drove planning decisions. The suspension bridge pictured here, overlooking the picturesque Black River Falls, probably was intended for functional purposes .
Black River
Engraving
Waterfalls
Watersheds
Watertown, NY
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Title
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New Deal Gallery
Description
An account of the resource
This collection of more than 200 paintings owes its existence to two primary causes: allocations from the Federal Art Project to a New York state tuberculosis sanatorium located at Mt. Morris--the landscapes and still lifes were thought to be restful--and to the committed volunteers who helped preserve the paintings after the hospital closed. For several decades the canvases were stored in non-climate-controlled basements; it appears that doctors and staff removed at least three dozen works as "keepsakes." <br /><br />Despite the seeming tranquility of the paintings, they were created by artists primarily from New York City whose background was more political and aesthetically adventurous than this rural location would indicate. <a href="https://openvalley.org/exhibits/show/green-new-deal/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow this hyperlink to a short introduction to the New Deal Gallery collection</a>. We're grateful to the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts for access to their collection, which has been re-photographed and appears here at two resolutions: a cropped, web-friendly file size of around 1 MB; and a high-resolution file including the painting's frame.<br /><br />Items in this collection were created according to a consistent format: a short description of each painting in formal terms, followed by a biography of each artist. Where possible we have supplied hyperlinks relevant to their lives and to other examples of their art. In order to better view them using the Omeka program, click on the "View All" option at the bottom of this page to access various sorting options.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1935-1940
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken (project director)
Ritz, Abigail (photography and project assistant)
Additional research: Justin Anderson, Jessica Apthorpe, Jay Bang, Kristopher Bangsil, Julia Caldwell, Sydney Cannioto, Sabrina Chan, Paige Closser, Victoria Domon, Elana Evenden, Yadelin Fernandez, Michael Griffin, Madison Jackson, Niamh McCrohan, Ben Michalak, Ricky Noel, Elizabeth Ramsay, Skye Rose, Samantha Schmeer, John Serbalik, Marianna Sheedy, Emily Spina, Alison Stern, Ravenna VanOstrand, and Nicholas Vanamee.
Special thanks to: Deborah Bump, Mark Calicchia, Elizabeth Harris, Melissa Moody, Rebecca Lomuto, and Mai Sato.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Oil painting
Physical Dimensions
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30 x 24 in.
Condition: surface dirt
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Title
A name given to the resource
In the Early Spring
Description
An account of the resource
This painting depicts a scene that combines natural elements with man-made features. The brick wall is clearly defined in the forefront of this painting, but our attention is directed to the waterfalls that flow behind it. The wall varies in height and seems to take on the shape of the waterfall behind it. Gaps and layers of the wall give the illusion that the waterfall is part of the man-made structures. The dreary background is abundant with parallel lines that make it appear as its own type of wall. <br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>: Like NDG artists Lucie Bayard and A.E. Cederquist, Cunning was a student of the famous artist-teacher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henri" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Henri</a> at the New York School of Art. He remained close to this circle of artists via the Whitney Studio Club, and several of his works were featured in Whitney Bienniels or museum collections: “Old Dock” (1927); “Sunset—New York Bay” (1932); “Roadside Market” (1934). His 1934 painting “Manhattan Skyline,” created for the Public Works of Art Program, is at <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/manhattan-skyline-6053" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a>. 1 work at <a href="http://collection.whitney.org/object/2493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whitney Museum of American Art.</a> 2 works at the <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/3526/objects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn Museum</a>. 1 more image at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-5-folder-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Cunning, John, 1889-1953
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Federal Art Project
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1937
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photographer)
Serbalik, John (biography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object #FA18140
Format
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jpeg, 848 KB
jpeg, 10.3 MB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
050
Federal Art Project
John Cunning
Landscape Art
New Deal Gallery
painting
Waterfalls
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Painting
Physical Dimensions
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11.75 x 17.5 in.
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Title
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Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York
Creator
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Smith, John Rubens (1775-1849)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Unknown
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1974, <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12614">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a><br />Via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Wikimedia Commons</a>
Format
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jpeg, 951 KB
jpeg, 515 KB
Description
An account of the resource
Watercolor and graphite composition captures the 1,000-ft. wide falls two miles upstream from where Mohawk joins the Hudson River. The name may derive from the Mohawk phrase "a canoe falling"--a wry bit of humor. According to an 1813 description, the "river is seen gliding over a granitic rock, smoothed by its own operations, and bordered with rocky banks, supporting a sterile soil and a stinted growth of pine, hemlock, cedar and other evergreens, till it arrive at the fall, down which it pours at high water, in one sheet of near 70 feet: but at low water, descends, in excavated courses, some in cataracts, and some in oblique or zig-zag precipices, affording a most sublime and picturesque combination of bold force and violence" (Horatio Gates Spafford, <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofstate01spaf/page/170">A Gazetteer of the State of New-York</a>, </em>p. 170).<br /><br />In 1831, the river was dammed for manufacturing purposes and its flow has been regulated since the 1930s, when it was converted for electricity generation.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
electricity
Hudson River
Milling
Mohawk River
Waterfalls
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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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
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 736 KB
jpeg, 465 KB
Type
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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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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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Photograph, black and white
Physical Dimensions
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5.4 x 3.10 in.
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Title
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Triphammer Falls, town of Avon, N.Y.
Description
An account of the resource
Bathers, friends of Martha Blow Wadsworth (wife of Herbert Wadsworth), frolicking in the falls at the Triphammer site in the southern part of the town of Avon, N.Y. The Wadsworth family of Geneseo owned a flour mill at this spot on Conesus Creek, near where a trip-hammer and forge were also located.
Creator
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Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
Format
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jpeg, 833 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
wadsworth
Waterfalls
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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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Photograph, black and white
Physical Dimensions
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4 x 3 in.
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Title
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Paper Mill Falls, Conesus Creek, town of Avon, N.Y.
Description
An account of the resource
Paper Mill Falls is the site of several early mills, including a grist (or flour) mill owned by the Wadsworth family of Geneseo, N.Y.
Format
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jpeg, 791 KB
Type
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Still Image
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
wadsworth
Waterfalls