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Posts focused on the 19th century period.

Posts focused on the 19th century period.

  • An engraving showing men firing down a city street at soldiers with cannons. Several dead and wounded are on the ground and a woman rushes toward one of them.

    New York City Draft Riots

    March 22nd, 2013
    Robert Swan's reaction to the draft during the Civil War

  • Mrs. Ricord’s Geneva Female Seminary

    March 12th, 2013
    Biography of educator and author Elizabeth Stryker Ricord
  • lincoln-seated-with-his-cabinet-after-signing-the-emancipation-proclamation

    150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

    February 25th, 2013
    A little over one-hundred fifty years ago, on September 22, 1862, President Lincoln took a step he had planned for months and proclaimed that as of January 1, 1863 “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.…”
  • Man in a leather apron standing next to a saddle in the doorway of a shop with the sign Chas. Brunskill Harness and Leather Goods Horse Sundries.

    The Helpful Horse

    February 11th, 2013
    The rise of the automobile and the decline of using horses for transportation in Geneva, New York.

  • Kidnapped!

    February 4th, 2013
    The kidnapping of two African-American men from Geneva, New York in 1857

  • Freezing Fingers, Toasted Toes: Heating in America

    January 28th, 2013
    A comfortable house in winter was a rare thing in much of the United States prior to the late 19th century. According to one English visitor to Cayuga, NY in 1827, American houses were built “expressly for summer, without the slightest reference to the six months’ winter that they suffer.”

  • Tom Thumb Visits Geneva

    January 22nd, 2013
    General Tom Thumb visit to Geneva, New York in 1847
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