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Ancient images on the Upper Ohio
The Babbs Island, Smiths Ferry, and Wellsville petroglyph record survives in fragments: early photographs, rubbings, published drawings, museum holdings, oral accounts, and modern fieldwork. RHKMI is comparing those fragments, identifying reversals and reassignments, and rebuilding an image record that keeps uncertainty visible.
Working materials and publications are being added.
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Mapping and cross-sections
USACE river charts, watershed boundaries, elevations, streets, transportation systems, industrial sites, and settlement patterns can be layered to reveal the valley as a working system. The Calhoun Crockery Valley Cross-Section is one practical form of that larger method.
Working materials and publications are being added.
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Historical visual reconstruction
High-value restoration begins with evidence. RHKMI develops staged restorations of photographs and postcards, distinguishes enhancement from reconstruction, protects faces and bodies, and preserves the original alongside every interpretive version.
Working materials and publications are being added.
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Potteries, kilns, mills, and transport
The Crockery Valley was formed by clay, coal, water, labor, capital, rail, river, trolley, road, and the repeated rebuilding of towns and industries. Research follows the connections rather than isolating firms or products.
Working materials and publications are being added.