Inspired by a collection of letters found by the artist while working at the American Antiquarian Society. The letters document the dealings of the slave trading firm, R.H. Dickinsin & Bros.
This book assembles the experiences of women who have been institutionalized for insanity. Square pages of text unfold into one large quilt like square. The text resemble sewn handwriting from the women such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and...
Photographs; Automobiles; Business districts; Drugstores; Shoe stores; Real estate business; Health care facilities; Baby carriages; Storefronts; Bay windows;
Photograph looking down Broadway, Haverstraw. The buildings are all brick with glass and wood storefronts. Several businesses are pictured: Miller’s Rexall Drugs, North Rockland Health, a real estate and insurance agency, and a shoe sore. One of...
Photographs; Banks; Business districts; Fire hydrants; Bricks; Friezes (Entablature components); Sidewalks; Traffic signs & signals;
A traffic light hangs in the middle of the intersection and a street sign identifying this as the corner of Main Street and West Street stands in front of this corner brick bank building. Several elements identify this building including a large...
This is the side view of a small barn with clapboard siding and a dormer roof. In contrast to the rest of the building, the clapboard siding on the dormer runs vertically. The small window on the side of the building is boarded up. A concrete...
This is a two story gabled barn with clapboard siding. Brackets run along the roofline. There is one large barn door with cross-braces and a large hay-loft door above. At the back of the barn, there is a flat-roofed one story addition. A chain-link...
This is a single level barn with gabled roof and double-wide sliding barn doors. The barn is a dark color and the barn door features criss-crossing wood beams in a lighter contrasting color. There is a small hayloft opening and this has a three of...
A gambrel roof tops this large barn with two garage door bays. There is a full-size hay loft door with pulley above the garage doors with windows set on either side. The siding near the hay loft windows was replaced and as a result the color of the...
A tall wood fence connects two clapboard-sided buildings. The building in the foreground is one-story and a single window is featured. The other building is taller with an opened garage door and a dormer. The dormer has a hay loft door and pulley...
A car is in each of the two bays of this garage and another parked outside in front of one of the bays. This building has two levels. The first level is concrete and features numerous cracks. The second level is brick and structural damage is...
A car is parked in front of this two-story brick structure. The corniced roof is flat with a slight tilt towards the back. Wooden doors with a hay loft door above are centered on the building. There is graffiti on either side of the bay doors on...
Only the top portion of this building is displayed. It is a gabled roof. Under the gable, there is wood siding, one small rectangular window under the gable, a sign that says, "Ask for Kasco Feeds They Give Best Results," a window on the right side...
Photographs; Buildings; Storefronts; Business districts; Cornices; Bricks; Lintels; Hardware stores;
This is a three-story tall brick building with a corniced roofline. There is a bracketed frieze with other decorative elements at the cornice. Above each of the windows, there is a decorative lintel. The first level is a storefront and the sign...
Photographs; Business districts; Bricks; Bay windows; Storefronts; Snow; Friezes (Entablature components);
Glass storefronts line this two-story brick building along New Main Street. Two bay windows jut out from the second story. On the other side of an intersecting street, a gabled, brick and wood building is the location of another storefront. A...
Photographs; Business districts; Storefronts; Hardware stores; Bricks; Lintels; Automobiles;
This is a view of several brick buildings in a downtown business district. The center building has a bracketed cornice and lintels above the windows. There is a large sign advertising 'Dutch Boy Paints' and the store name 'Shaw-Jobson'. This sign...
Photographs; Business districts; Storefronts; Lintels; Bricks; Gables;
The perspective of this photograph is looking down a street lined with brick buildings to the building across the intersecting street. The building at the intersection is three-story brick with a gable extending from an otherwise flat roofline. On...
Photographs; Domes; Banks; Cornices; Quoins; Business districts;
This rounded corner two-story building features a dome on the roof. The modified hip roofline leads down to a cornice with dentils and decorated frieze. The two sides of the building end with quoins outlining the entryway. A sign stating "The...
This is a two-story gabled brick building with double-width wooden bay doors. On the upper level there is a boarded up hay loft door with brick lintel. This building is attached to a similar brick building with bay doors and a flat roof. A...
A note indicates that the original use of this building was as a stable. The building is gabled on the front and sides of the building and the roof shingles are diamond shaped. The siding in the front gable is fish-scaled, the siding on the rest of...
In this photograph of a three-story brick building in a business district, the storefront on the ground level is partially cut-off. On the second level, a sign that says, "Dutch Boy Paints Shaw-Jobson" is mounted, partially blocking three of the...
