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Uniquely New York

Uniquely New York

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A unique teaching and learning tool that highlights various parks, museums, landmarks, and people throughout New York State. Students will experience many destinations such as battlefields, natural wonders, railroads, and even a cemetery. This series covers a wide range of themes including arts and culture, early American History, innovation and commerce, natural history, sports history, transportation, and Women's History.

Sepia-tone map of a small town. In the middle, Gothic-style text surrounds a drawing of an eagle with outstretched wings and reads, "Map of the Village of Auburn, 1857." Sketches of different styles of buildings are in the top right.
Uniquely New York
Episode 1
2 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 small airplanes parked next to each other on a grassy field on a sunny day, with an orange windsock and a brown-brick building in the distance behind them. The closest plane has a white cover on it.
Uniquely New York
Episode 2
1 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Multistory wooden building painted light blue on a street next to a smaller wooden building painted white with a tree-covered hill in the background on a sunny day. The blue building has a small bell tower.
Uniquely New York
Episode 3
1 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
City street lined with connected buildings of various heights and colors on the left and brick buildings with turrets on the right. A hill with trees is at the end, and many modern vehicles are parked in the street.
Uniquely New York
Episode 4
1 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Low-angle view of a 3-story red-brick building with turrets on each corner and a taller turret in the front middle. The sky is blue with a few clouds, and a couple vehicles drive by.
Uniquely New York
Episode 5
1 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sepia-tone sketch of an aerial view of city with a large hill rising in the back.
Uniquely New York
Episode 6
1 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a wooden sign painted forest green and burgundy in front of a tan building. Painted in yellow are the words, "Deposit Historical Society Museum, 145." Pink daisies are beneath the sign.
Uniquely New York
Episode 7
1 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wooden sign painted white with text in blue and black that reads, "Welcome to Downsville. Settled 1792." A oval with a painting of a brown barn is in the center of the sign.
Uniquely New York
Episode 8
1 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer graphic of a poster with an aerial view of a city with streets in a grid. A river runs across the bottom left. The words, "Elimira, New York," are written across the bottom center in Gothic script, with other miniscule text on each side.
Uniquely New York
Episode 9
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of a large, long multistory building with a painted white sign that reads, "Endicott-Johnson Workers, Tanners, and Shoe Makers." Many 1930s-style cars are parked in the parking lot in the front.
Uniquely New York
Episode 10
1 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
City street lined with buildings of varying shades and heights as several vehicles drive by on a sunny day.
Uniquely New York
Episode 11
1 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a blue and red metal sign with green trees in the background. Text on the sign reads, "Stephen Ketchum settled near this site in the town of Greene and built his log cabin in 1792."
Uniquely New York
Episode 12
1 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown wooden sign hanging above green bushes next to a short flag pole with the U, S flag and a yellow flag beneath it. They are in a field of grass lined with green trees. The sign reads, "Welcome to Groton. Incorporated 1860."
Uniquely New York
Episode 13
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 lamp posts with an iron sign, which reads, "Town Square, Hancock, New York. Gateway to the Upper Delaware," arching between them. Behind is a green roofed gazebo and a white multistory building in front of a large, green hill.
Uniquely New York
Episode 14
1 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a sign on vertical and horizontal brown posts painted like red brick, with a raised circle in the middle that reads, "Horseheads Historical Museum at the Depot." A red brick building with a ramp is visible in the background to the left.
Uniquely New York
Episode 15
1 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Red brick building with a low red-brick wall partially covered in green vines with a flower bed with marigolds in front. Text on the wall reads, "Ithaca, New York."
Uniquely New York
Episode 16
1 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a street separating 2 large, multistory, red-brick buildings. A water tower is between them, and sprawling gardens unfold before them. Cars from the early 1990s drive along the street.
Uniquely New York
Episode 17
1 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Low-angle closeup of a blue and yellow metal sign with green trees in the background. Text on the sign reads, "She-Qua-Ga, 'Tumbling Waters.' A sketch now in the Louvre made about 1820 by Louis Philippe, later king of France."
Uniquely New York
Episode 18
1 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a wooden sign painted green between 2 wooden posts in front of green trees. Yellow text on the sign reads, "Moravia. Settled 1789. National Register of Historic Places."
Uniquely New York
Episode 19
2 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
City street lined with brick buildings of varying shades of red on the right and a church steeple rising in the back as vehicles drive by during the daytime.
Uniquely New York
Episode 20
1 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white map outlined in black with white text that reads, "Oneonta," partially overlaid by a sepia-tone image of a tree-lined valley. Logo in lower left corner reads, "Path through history."
Uniquely New York
Episode 21
1 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a blue and tan metal sign with green trees and a lake in the background. Text on the sign reads, "Van Cleef Lake, named for George Cunningham Van Cleef, one of first white children born in Seneca County 1797."
Uniquely New York
Episode 22
1 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
City street lined with a long, 2-story red-brick building with white windows. Many modern vehicles are either parked or drive down the street. Tall green deciduous trees are in the distance.
Uniquely New York
Episode 23
1 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sepia tone sketch of a town situated between 2 hills with a large river running across the bottom right. The words, "Walton, New York, 1887," are written across the bottom center in Gothic script, with other miniscule text on each side.
Uniquely New York
Episode 24
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of 3 early-1900s cars coming around a bend in a racetrack. A crowd looks on from the right, with a building looming behind them.
Uniquely New York
Episode 25
1 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of a dirt road lined with trees and several wooden, single story buildings with pitched roofs. The closest building has a sign that reads, "Shanley Brothers" and 1 woman and 2 men standing in front.
Uniquely New York
Episode 26
1 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a blue and tan metal sign with green trees in the background. Text on the sign reads, "Windsor. David Hotchkiss Founder, circa 1787, gave village green to Presbyterian Society 1802. Town of Windsor. 1807. Village incorporated 1897."
Uniquely New York
Episode 27
2 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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