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Still Image
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Original Format
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Lithograph
Physical Dimensions
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14 1/2 x 21 7/16 in.
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Title
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Palisades (No. 19, Hudson River Portfolio)
Description
An account of the resource
In the summer of 1820, Wall toured the Hudson River and painted a series of watercolors that then would be etched and issued to subscribers in series of four prints. The text accompanying this images reads: "The Pallisadoes consist of a line of rugged and perpendicular bluffs, which at a few miles distance from the city of New-York, margin for a considerable distance and overlook the bed of the Hudson river...Rising in savage grandeur, and stretching their tree-crowned summits far as the vision can compass, these rocks are too prominent a feature in the scenery of the Hudson to be overlooked. The shore...is abrupt, and the water sufficiently deep to allow vessels, even of considerable burthen, to approach within a short distance...The height of these bluffs....rising from 400 to 800 feet, exhibiting...steep and solid masses of stupendous stone, and presenting here and there deep cavities, where the eagle builds his nest among the cliffs."
Creator
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Hill, John (1770-1850) (Etcher)
Wall, William Guy (b. 1792) (Artist)
Smith, John Rubens (1775-1849) (Etcher)
Publisher
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Megarey, Henry J. (1818-1845)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1820
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954<br /><br /><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/357126">Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art</a><br /><br /><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Via Wikimedia Commons</a>
Hudson Palisades
Hudson River
Wall, William Guy
Watershed
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Bird's Eye View
Physical Dimensions
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3 x 7 cm.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Charles Lenker's Property, Freeport NY
Description
An account of the resource
Excerpted from <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804f.pm005650/?r=0.287,0.382,0.395,0.177,0">a larger bird's-eye view</a> of Freeport, NY this image shows an agricultural business located on North Main Street; we see a streetcar in the foreground. Lenker is described as a "Florist and Nurseryman," although given Freeport's proximity to Manhattan he may have grown produce for the city as well. In addition to outdoor fields, several large greenhouses are part of the operation. The windmill may have been used to circulate air, but it's more likely to have operated an irrigation system. Today Freeport still "draws its water supply from eight operating wells that have been drilled into Magothy Aquifer at depths ranging from 500 feet to 640 feet. This aquifer, which was originally created by a glaciers action, is held in place by sand and pressure of the ocean water that surrounds Long Island" (<a href="https://www.freeportny.com/index.aspx?nid=36">Village of Freeport</a>).
Creator
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Hughes & Bailey
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1909
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Original image: Library of Congress
Format
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jpeg, 554 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Agriculture
Freeport, NY
Long Island
Watershed
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Map
Physical Dimensions
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25 x 21 cm
25 x 21 cm
73 x 29 cm
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Title
A name given to the resource
United States of America map
Description
An account of the resource
This item consists of three files from an teaching atlas from England created by Rev. Edward Patteson. The first is a map of the United States, apparently not yet reflecting the Louisiana Purchase. The second is what Patteson terms a "Blank Duplicate" of the first map, which he argues will be found "very convenient...as giving a much clearer view of the number and situation of the Towns, Rivers, &c. than a Map crowded with names." Patteson's pedagogy seems to have entailed students recognizing political boundaries at least in terms of latitudes and natural features, like rivers and mountain ranges.
The third image is a merged document enacting Patteson's design to have the Blank Duplicate "placed opposite to the written Map."
Creator
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Patteson, Rev. Edward
Publisher
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N.R. Hewitt, printer
Date
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1804
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Format
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jpeg, 1.2 MB
jpeg, 1.4 MB
jpeg, 1.1 MB
Atlas
Edward Patteson
Map
rivers
Watershed
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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
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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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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
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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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
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jpeg, 664 KB
jpeg, 476 KB
Type
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Postcard
Creator
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Unknown
Frederick Law Olmsted
Genesee River
Genesee Valley Park
Pastoral
Rochester, NY
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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In Front of Walker House, Silver Lake, NY
Creator
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Wilson, Albert
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1908-1915
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 724 KB
jpeg, 348 KB
Description
An account of the resource
Postcard shows guests taking in the scenery at a popular hotel located next to the Silver Lake Railroad. Actually, it was the <em>second </em>Walker House, the first having burned down in 1857. That earlier hotel was operated by Artemus B. Walker, whose desire to drum up business led to his role in an 1855 sighting of the so-called "Silver Lake Serpent." Two fisherman saw what they thought was a log, until a beast leaped from the water. Two years later, a fire at Walker House revealed the apparatus and he confessed to the hoax--it was an additional incentive to visit Silver Lake. <br /><br />Walker lived in Canada for a period, then returned to Silver Lake and built this later iteration of his hotel in 1869. He remained a promoter: his resort complex included boats, a diving platform, dance halls, and various amusements.
Perry, NY
Post Card
Silver Lake
Silver Lake Railroad
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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Mt. Hope Reservoir, Rochester NY
Description
An account of the resource
In 1873 work began on a water system for the city of Rochester--an earlier one had failed due to poor construction--that would draw from Hemlock Lake in Livingston County, nearly thirty miles distant. By this point the growing city of some 70,000 still drew its water from wells and cisterns; diseases like cholera and dysentery were common because wells were located near cesspits. When a fire broke out the city depended upon water from the Erie Canal or Genesee River. Hemlock Lake was 385 feet higher than the reservoir and as such gravity fed. It was completed in 1876 and later, in 1919, was expanded to include nearby Canadice Lake.
Today, what's now called the Highland Reservoir looks much as it did in this old photograph.
Publisher
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Scrantom Wetmore & Co.
Date
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1901-1907
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 602 KB
jpeg, 287 KB
Type
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Postcard
Canadice Lake
Hemlock Lake
Highland Reservoir
Mt. Hope Reservoir
Post Card
Rochester, NY
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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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
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
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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
Birdseye View of Springwater, NY
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1918-05-27
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
Format
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jpeg, 591 KB
jpeg, 594 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Postcard
Description
An account of the resource
From a hillside looking approximately southwest, view shows part of the watershed supplying Hemlock Lake and ultimately the city of Rochester, NY. At the time of this photograph the town's population would have been around 1,700 people, still primarily involved in agriculture. Springwater was established in 1816 and encompasses the highest point in Livingston County. During its early history stands of forest were logged before giving way to farming.
bird's eye view
Post Card
Springwater, NY
Watershed