2-752-444 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Rochester, from Mount Hope Cemetery', 1874. View of the city of Rochester, New York State, USA. Rochester lies on the Genesee River and on the southern shore of Lake Ontario. '...the early pioneers of this western region were men of energy and foresight, who saw in the valley of the Genesee the "garden-plot of the West", and in the then village of Rochester the future "Granary of America"'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]