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Illustrations of two Speaking tube whistles from W.R. Ostrander & Co, 1882 catalog. 

At Home with the Swans: Internal Communication

Exploration of the speaking tube system in Rose Hill Mansion.
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A group of children watch two women in old-fashioned clothes help a girl use a butter churn in an old-fashioned kitchen.

At Home with the Swans: The Kitchen

Overview of the kitchen at Rose Hill Mansion.
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View of a Greek Revival mansion with 6 2-story pillars across a lawn and through trees.

At Home with the Swans: The Necessary Room

Overview of the purpose of the Necessary Room in Rose Hill Mansion.
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Agnes Swan sitting in front of the fireplace in the North Parlor of Rose Hill.

At Home with the Swans: The Parlors

Overview of how the parlors were used at Rose Hill Mansion.
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View of the breakfast table and chairs in the Breakfast Room in Rose Hill Mansion

At Home with the Swans: Breakfast Room

Closer look at the use and purpose of the Breakfast Room in Rose Hill Mansion.
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Two of Swan boys. One is dressed in a suit and the other in a dress.

Exploring Death and Mourning at Rose Hill

Through an exhibit and tours at Rose Hill Mansion visitors will explore 19th century ideas about illness, death, and common practices people used to cope with them.  
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Several barns and other outbuildings at Rose Hill

Bringing the Inside Outside: Rose Hill Landscape Plan

Overview of Historic Geneva’s plan to interpret and rehabilitate the grounds at Rose Hill Mansion.
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a man and three women along side water

How Did The Victorians Keep Cool During The Summer?

Overview of how the Swan family and Rose Hill workers dealt with the summer heat during the mid-1800s.
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Outside Rose Hill: An Exploration Of Landscape And Architecture

Summer At Rose Hill

Summer at Rose Hill with the Swan family in the mid-1800s.
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A man and woman standing next to high snowbanks in a street with commercial buildings on both sides and a church at the end.

Cold, Chilly Victorian Winter

Brief overview of winter activities in the Victorian Era.
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Rose Hill Ornament

New Year, New Season at Rose Hill

New Year activities for the Swan family and Historic Geneva
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Rose Hill Ornament

How Does Our Holiday Celebration Compare to the Victorians?

How Victorian families, like the Swans at Rose Hill, celebrated Christmas
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Several barns and other outbuildings at Rose Hill

Changing Seasons at Rose Hill Mansion

Fall at Rose Hill with the Swan.
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Several barns and other outbuildings at Rose Hill

Rose Hill Mansion’s Landscape: Aesthetic & Utilitarian

How Rose Hill Mansion's landscape was used during the Swan period (1850-1890).
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Uncle Doctor

Robert Swan’s youngest brother Frederick wrote a history of the Swan family in the 1890s. In it, he talks about their Uncle Daniel, or, as they called him, “Uncle Doctor:” [H]e made choice of the profession of medicine, and studied with Dr. John Brooks, then the resident physician of Medford. . . . Early in his practice, his attention was directed to the system of medical practice known as homeopathy and it won his approval.
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shasta-style-native-grass-basket-with-deer-motif

A Basket of a Tale

When people donate objects to the museum, we always ask if they know anything about the history of the items. Sometimes there is a family story about who made or owned a piece, and we take those stories seriously. Once in a while, though, when we look into the story, we find that there may have been some misunderstanding as the tale was passed down. One example of this is a basket given to us by the Hutchins family.
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Neither shall there by any more pain

Discussion of the usage of anesthesia during childbirth in the mid-1800s.
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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

Robert Swan's reaction to the draft during the Civil War
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two views of Seneca Lake

From Lake to Table (Fish Dinner from Catch to Table)

The Swan family's experience with muskellunge
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