“Inmate” Was Term Used to Describe Poor House Residents
Vol. 4, No. 8 As I perused the pages of a death ledger from the Orleans County Home, covering the years 1873 to 1902, the phrase “inmate” appears quite regularly.…
Read moreVol. 4, No. 8 As I perused the pages of a death ledger from the Orleans County Home, covering the years 1873 to 1902, the phrase “inmate” appears quite regularly.…
Read moreVolume 3, Issue 48 This photography, taken prior to 1915, shows the main office located within the administration building of the Western House of Refuge (now the Albion Correctional Facility).…
Read moreVolume 3, Issue 37 This photograph taken in the 1920s shows the Lone Star Inn as it appeared on Gaines Basin Road. Located on the old Thurston Farm, this property…
Read moreVolume 3, Issue 30 The success of the Erie Canal was not without trials and tribulations over its 200-year history. These photographs, taken in August of 1927, show the damage…
Read moreVolume 3, Issue 13 In the years preceding massive department and grocery stores, smaller family owned dry goods and grocery stores occupied the storefronts of small-town America. This image shows…
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