Preliminary artist's sketch for Panels 9 and 10 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. Panel 9: "1865. A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National...
Black and white photograph of the "feeding," or No. 23 harvesting ice at Rockland Lake, NY. The photograph shows men pulling the ice from the lake. There is snow on the ground. The huge mechanism on the right is used to break the ice from the...
Photograph of an ice house at Rockland Lake, NY. THe photograph shows the ice house to the right of the lake. Between the ice house and the lake is the machine that breaks and moves the ice from the lake to the ice house. There is a dirt road...
Looking down a dirt road along Rockland Lake at an old ice house. In the 1830's Rockland Lake was the center of an important ice industry, employing over 2,000 people. The ice was transported to Hudson River boats for transport to New York City....
Postcards; Lakes & ponds; Ice; Icehouses; Ice industry
The lake is ice covered, and the image is looking from the ice towards the shore. There are several men working on moving ice down a ramp. In the 1830's Rockland Lake was the center of an important ice industry, employing over 2,000 people. The...
Postcards; Lakes & ponds; Icehouses; Ice industry; Business enterprises; Postmasters; Postal service employees; Postal service; Post offices; Grocery stores; Streets
A strip of four postcards. The first is of harvesting the ice of Rockland Lake and shows one of three ice houses at Rockland Lake. The second postcard is Main Street, Rockland Lake. The third postcard is Florence Brinkerhoff, Rockland Lake...
In the center of the image are the huge coal silos of the Nyack Ice and Coal Company.The small building in the center was an icon of South Nyack but was torn down about 2008.
Smith Lydeckers Ice Storehouse was a large wooden structure with inclined ice elevators on the left. On the right side a smaller building has windows, a stairway, and a chimney.
The photographer captured an image of a muddy and snowy Ferdon Avenue, looking east toward Piermont. On the left are the Ice Pond and in the background, a large wooden Ice House with an elevator.
The picture is unclear as John Scott made the slide from a newspaper clipping that had been folded, but the largest building, with elevators, was the Nyack Ice House. The caption reads, "This picture goes back plenty of years to the days when Nyack...
Men standing on a plankway at the edge of the ice guide large slabs unto the elevators that lift them into the ice house. The huge buildings, insulated with hickory sawdust, would keep the ice cold until late summer. The photographer was a resident...
