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The Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

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It is one of the most visible and recognizable landmarks on the university's River Campus. Dedicated in 1930, it is named after Benjamin Rush Rhees, the university's third president.

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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2010 - 2020
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Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

Arnold Park, Rochester, N.Y. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Statue and skylight inside the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Gravesite of escaped slave turned emancipation orator and statesman Frederick Douglass at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Around 1843, Douglass moved to Rochester, where he embarked on a career as a newspaper publisher

American Library Association - Libraries - Kansas through Mississippi - Library, Camp Custer, Michigan. From C.P.I

Muffler shop in the Willets Point neighborhood of New York City's borough, or county-like jurisdiction, of Queens

[Memorial Park Library, Adams, Massachusetts.]

Officers of the Div. 4th of July Parade, Rochester, N.Y.

City of London, London, United Kingdom (Unsplash)

Aerial view of Franklin Square, Washington, D.C.

Eagle sculpture at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Louisiana

Unidentified building, autochrome color photo

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