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Folio Downloads

Appalachia series folio (24 pages, 27 photographs, 2.2 MB)
Chile series folio (24 pages, 24 photographs, 2.1 MB)
Family of Miners series folio (24 pages, 29 photographs 1.7MB)
Lower West Side Singles series folio (24 pages, 24 photographs 1.9 MB)
Lower West Side Triptychs and Quartets series folio (19 pages, 19 photographs 1.2MB)
Native American series folio (24 pages, 24 photographs, 2.2MB)
Storefront Churches series folio (24 pages, 26 photographs 2.1MB)
Working People series folio (18 pages, 31 photographs 1.1MB)
Yemeni series folio (23 pages, 24 photographs 2.1MB)
Traveling Exhibit, Syracuse Cultural Workers folio (36 pages, 50 photographs 2.5MB)
Women at Work folio (24 pages, 31 photographs 2.2MB)
The Young, The Elderly folio (23 pages, 25 photographs 1.9MB)
Portraits folio (24 pages, 24 photographs 1.6 MB)
Families folio (23 pages, 23 photographs, 2 MB)

Additional Folio Resources

Lower West Side

Lower West Side history was written by JoAnn Wypijewski, published in the book Triptychs, Buffalo's Lower West Side Revisited, 1994.
Click to download PDF (23 pages, 104KB) »

Native American

Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Boarding School Experiences in Western New York, DVD, Run Time 29:40
DVD's are available through Native American Community Services

Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture. Western New York Native American communities are presently attempting to heal the wounds and break the cycle inter-generational trauma resulting from the boarding school experience. Unseen Tears documents testimonies of boarding school survivors, their families, and social service providers.

Iroquois Genealogy Society, archive of Thomas Indian School

Storefront Churches

Urban Holiness Service: Elder Charles D. Beck, issued by Folkways Records, 1959, FR 8901. Milton Rogovin was asked by the music historian William Tallmadge to take the photographs for the cover and liner notes for the new 78. Those photographs launched Rogovin's Storefront Churches series. Folkways Records is now a part of the Smithsonian Institution. DVDs can be ordered thru the Smithsonian

Articles of Faith, Color photographs of Holiness Churches in Chicago by photographer Dave Jordano.

Storefront Churches series had its first article in published in 1962 in Aperture magazine with an introduction by the eminent sciologist W.E.B. DuBois. This is a 1 page reproduction of the article, see below for complete Aperture layout with article and photographs.
Click to download PDF (1 page, 16KB)

Storefront Churches (orginal article with photographs) The original Storefront Churches article in its entirety, Aperture magazine, 1962, with introduction by W.E.B. Dubois. Includes 40 photos in original layout.
Click to download PDF (13 pages, 2.3MB)