{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1568"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Museum purchase"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1877"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1981    12   16"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1981.12.16"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Watercolor and ink on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Oswego"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1259/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1259"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Oswego Starch Factory"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Oswego"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"After the Civil War, a proliferation of published views recorded large cities, small hamlets, industrial complexes, and other scenes of progress. A new aerial perspective emphasized individual buildings but also required precise documentation of street plans and architectural details on the part of the artist. This large-scale, hand-painted version of Thomas Kingsford\u2019s Starch Factory in Oswego, New York, may have been commissioned as the prototype for a lithograph, but more probably it was copied from one of the many existing prints of the factory that were produced for advertising purposes and for decorating its offices.Kingsford was renowned for discovering a process for making high-quality cornstarch from Indian corn. His first factory was established in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1846, and incorporated in Oswego by 1848. Its location on the banks of the Oswego River facilitated the distribution of the starch products. By the 1870s, the factory was producing thirty-five tons of cornstarch per day, was employing one-third of the American workers in the industry, and was the largest company of its type in the world. The complex\u2014almost a small town\u2014consisted of the starch factory, a box factory, a machine shop, a carpentry shop, various storehouses, several other outbuildings, and its own fire company, all of which combined for twelve acres of floor and five acres of roof.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Oswego Starch Factory,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 354."},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Treasures of Folk Art: Museum of American Folk Art"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Oswego"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"153207"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"'AJH / 77'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"After the Civil War, a proliferation of published views recorded large cities, small hamlets, industrial complexes, and other scenes of progress. A new aerial perspective emphasized individual buildings but also required precise documentation of street plans and architectural details on the part of the artist. This large-scale, hand-painted version of Thomas Kingsford\u2019s Starch Factory in Oswego, New York, may have been commissioned as the prototype for a lithograph, but more probably it was copied from one of the many existing prints of the factory that were produced for advertising purposes and for decorating its offices.Kingsford was renowned for discovering a process for making high-quality cornstarch from Indian corn. His first factory was established in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1846, and incorporated in Oswego by 1848. Its location on the banks of the Oswego River facilitated the distribution of the starch products. By the 1870s, the factory was producing thirty-five tons of cornstarch per day, was employing one-third of the American workers in the industry, and was the largest company of its type in the world. The complex\u2014almost a small town\u2014consisted of the starch factory, a box factory, a machine shop, a carpentry shop, various storehouses, several other outbuildings, and its own fire company, all of which combined for twelve acres of floor and five acres of roof.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Oswego Starch Factory,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 354."},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1877"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"lower center: 'OSWEGO STARCH FACTORY. / INCORPORATED 1848 OSWEGO NY. T. KINGSFORD & SON Manufacturers.'"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"Possibly 1877"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 18, 2015 - Sunday, September 27, 2015","exhibitionEndISODate":"2015-09-27","exhibitionID":"169","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2015-07-18","exhibitionBeginDate":"2015","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art and American Modernism","exhibitionEndDate":"2015"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, July 11, 2002 - Sunday, January 5, 2003","exhibitionEndISODate":"2003-01-26","exhibitionID":"73","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2002-07-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2002","exhibitionTitle":"American Anthem","exhibitionEndDate":"2003"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - Sunday, November 7, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-11-07","exhibitionID":"185","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2009-10-20","exhibitionBeginDate":"2009","exhibitionTitle":"A New York Sampler: Selections from the Collection","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, September 14, 1996 - Sunday, January 5, 1997","exhibitionEndISODate":"1997-01-05","exhibitionID":"81","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-09-14","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"A Place for Us","exhibitionEndDate":"1997"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Monday, September 19, 2016","exhibitionEndISODate":"2016-09-19","exhibitionID":"159","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2016-07-02","exhibitionBeginDate":"2016","exhibitionTitle":"AMERICAN MADE","exhibitionEndDate":"2016"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, February 24, 1982 - Sunday, September 19, 1982","exhibitionEndISODate":"1982-09-19","exhibitionID":"14","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1982-02-24","exhibitionBeginDate":"1982","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art Masterpieces","exhibitionEndDate":"1982"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 36 1/8 x 53 1/4 \" (91.8 x 135.3 cm)Frame: 38 3/4 x 56 x 1 3/8 \" (98.4 x 142.2 x 3.5 cm)"}}]}