Page two of a newspaper published by the Community Service Society (formerly the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor) about radio personality Wythe Williams' visit to Ward Manor in 1941.
Four men stand posed around the Bard College Fire Department Engine #2: one at the passenger door, one at the driver side door, and two at the front bumper. The truck contained a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank and 150 feet of hose. The stone building...
Photograph taken in the Chester meadows (black dirt) north of looking of the Erie Main Line, looking west towards Meadow Avenue. Micky Cassisison lived in last house on right.
Commissioners Map of Low Lands in the Towns of Chester & Blooming Grove, showing parcels and owners.
Commissioners: Oscar Durland, Willaim Pierson, Charles Caldwell
This Screenings receipt, is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in...
Newspaper article reporting the discovery of a mastadon or mammoth in the Chester Black Dirt. (This article was electronically clipped from our complete issue of the United States Gazette)
Single row onion set planter guided manually by a farmhand walking behind, but pulled by a tractor. The chains driven off the rear wheels operated mechanisms that dropped onion sets at designated intervals into the furrow plowed by the blades...
This Walter John Szulwach onion crate is typical of the crates used to pick, store and transport onions harvested from Chester's 'black dirt' farms from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.
A dirt farm road with vegetation on both sides of the road. The imprint of wagon wheels can been seen on the road. Farm fields are to the right of the road.
Two people are riding in a horse and carriage on a country dirt road. The carriage is parked in the road by small barn. The barn is old and in need of repair.
