Poster showing a soldier with troops and tents in the background, presumably the Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Copyright by Military Training Camps Association. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster showing soldiers marching with their rifles shouldered; tents and cannons in the background, presumably the Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Copyright by Military Training Camps Association. Poster allows space for additional information to be printed or inscribed. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster showing a woman in a white uniform opening a door marked "Opportunity." 34-1146-20 G.L. Co.

This art history video discussion examines the Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo), c. 1319, Yuan dynasty, water-based pigments on clay mixed with straw, 24 feet, 8 inches x 49 feet 7 inches / 751.8 cm x 1511.3 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Poster is text of proclamation ordering "census and inventory and enrollment." Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Students will receive exposure to new vocabulary, then read and annotate an article, discuss, and engage in a writing exercise, focused on the Iroquois Confederacy.  

Poster promoting a demonstration of poultry management skills by the New York State Food Supply Commission. S-5-27. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Kevin Lynch's landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban environment, stressing the ways that individuals mentally organize their own sensory experience of cities. Increasingly, however, city imaging is supplemented and constructed by exposure to visual media, rather than by direct sense experience of urban realms. City images are not static, but subject to constant revision and manipulation by a variety of media-savvy individuals and institutions. In recent years, urban designers (and others) have used the idea of city image proactively -- seeking innovative ways to alter perceptions of urban, suburban, and regional areas. City imaging, in this sense, is the process of constructing visually-based narratives about the potential of places.

Powered by the School Library Systems Association of New York and made possible in part through the Allison-Rosen Foundation, LibraryReady.AI is an initiative that aims to integrate artificial intelligence, media literacy, and information fluency into New York State's school libraries.  The goal is to prepare students for an increasingly digital and AI-driven world.

Exhibit poster showing a disabled man working with film projection equipment. Poster caption: Disabled men have shown great fondness for Motion Picture Operating and have succeeded well at the trade. Several graduates of the Training Class at the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York City, are now at work in the city's theaters. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

Poster showing a minuteman and a modern soldier with tents and cannons in the background, presumably the Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Copyright by Military Training Camps Association. Poster allows space for additional information to be printed or inscribed. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster showing a rally for the War Work Campaign, Wall Street, New York City. Text continues: The U.S. Government and Maine Committee on Public Safety ask you to help the nation by wise Christmas shopping. 1. Buy useful articles 2. Pay cash for them 3. Shop early 4. Ship gifts early 5. Ship gifts in small space 6. Deliver gifts yourself when possible. Remember that Liberty Bonds and W[ar] S[avings] S[tamps] make ideal presents. Caption: Charlie Brickley kicks a goal into J. P. Morgan's office on Wall Street New York and then talks for the fund. New York has adopted spectacular methods for drawing crowds to listen to spell-binders who urge the people to give generously to the War Work Campaign. Photo shows Charles Brickley, former Harvard half back, drop kicking the pigskin over the heads of thousands on Wall Street, thousands of dollars were subscribed. News Photo Poster No. 22, issued for Maine Committee on Public Safety, Blaine Mansion, Augusta, Maine. Mounted with other News Photo Posters. Title from item.

Poster showing a soldier waving goodbye to a crowd including Uncle Sam. Monogram unidentified. Poster appears to have been trimmed from original size. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Case studies will highlight the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the nineteenth-century city and its organization. Through examples and historical context, current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design will also be discussed and analyzed.

This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Case studies will highlight the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the nineteenth-century city and its organization. Through examples and historical context, current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design will also be discussed and analyzed.

The Erie Canal is one of the most famous man-made bodies of water in the world. Designed, financed, built, operated, and maintained by the people of New York, the canal was one of the largest public works projects ever attempted anywhere in the world when the first shovel of earth was turned near Rome, New York, on July 4, 1817. Men with talent and vision (but little training in engineering) charted the 363-mile course of the canal between Albany and Buffalo. They designed stone aqueducts to carry boats across rivers and locks to lift them over New York’s varied terrain. Thousands of laborers dug the ditch itself and built massive reservoirs to ensure the canal was constantly supplied with water. When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connected the port of New York City on the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes, dramatically transforming trade, industry, and communication in the region and across the country.

Poster showing U.S. Navy recruiting station at the United Cigar Stores Company in the Flatiron Building in New York City on the day of the "Wake up America" parade, April 19, 1917. Poster sponsored(?) by: United Cigars Stores Co. Reproduction of photograph by Irving Underhill, April 19, 1917.

Text continues: Apply 34 E. 23d St., New York; 115 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus's Diario through the present. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marginally under their control. Whether the traveler is a curious tourist, the leader of a national expedition, or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can be. Accordingly, we will pay attention not only to narrative texts but to maps, objects, archives, and facts of various kinds.
Our materials are organized around three regions: North America, Africa and the Atlantic world, the Arctic and Antarctic. The historical scope of these readings will allow us to know something not only about the experiences and writing strategies of individual travelers, but about the progressive integration of these regions into global economic, political, and knowledge systems. Whether we are looking at the production of an Inuit film for global audiences, or the mapping of a route across the North American continent by water, these materials do more than simply record or narrate experiences and territories: they also participate in shaping the world and what it means to us.
Authors will include Olaudah Equiano, Caryl Philips, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid, William Least Heat Moon, Louise Erdrich, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.
Expeditions will include those of Lewis and Clark (North America), Henry Morton Stanley (Africa), Ernest Shackleton and Robert F. Scott (Antarctica).

Poster showing small scenes of ploughing and a military camp, with extensive text soliciting agricultural workers and offering assistance to farmers. New York State Food Supply Commission, Albany, N.Y. Includes quote from New York Governor Charles S. Whitman. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.