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Glass Plate Negatives - set 11

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Church? Or campus clock tower? Where is it? The tower has both a bell or bells and a clock.
It was the Congregational Church on NYS Highway 12, aka Main St. in Sherburne, NY.
Now it is referred to as the Sherburne United Church of Christ.

A History of Otego by Stuart Banyar Blakely

Quoting the introduction below:

"On the grave-posts of our fathers
Are no signs, no figures painted;
Who are in those graves we know not,
Only know they are our fathers."

This little book is the result of the past four
summers' work in searching old records, con-
sulting books and articles that bear upon local
history and talking with those who, by age or
interest, are authorities. An endeavor has been

Glass Plate Negatives - set 12

A curved dam and a hydro-electric project or something similar, but where?

Emily, one of the librarians at the Village Library of Morris, NY has solved the mystery. The plant is at Triphammer Falls on Fall Creek near Ithaca, NY. Details of the project were reported in 1896 in The Cornell Daily Sun -- see this link.

http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS18961027.2.11&...

Glass Plate Negatives - set 9

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Are any of the school children in this group of three?

Double exposure -- outside a church it would appear.

Glass Plate Negatives - set 8

Girl with bird on her shoulder. Woman inside might not be approving the pose.

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Looking into the backyard. Is someone dressed in black working back there?

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