Environmental activist Lois Gibbs and her daughter outside the office of the Love Canal Homeowners Association in Niagara Falls on June 21, 1980.

Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt in 1914. Catt is the founder of the League of Women Voters.

The "Albany Flyer," built by Glenn Curtiss, takes off from a ship on Nov. 14, 1910. Earlier that year, Curtiss completed a pioneering flight down the Hudson River from Albany to Manhattan.

Smith A. Boughton's grave marker in Sand Lake Union Cemetery. A leader in the Anti-Rent Wars, he helped bring an end to the feudal patroon system.

Bertram D. Tallamy, the first federal........

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