An aerial shot of one of the first trucks used by the Student Fire Department with ladders and hoses loaded onto the attached 500 gallon pumping trailer. The pump was removed from the trailer and placed on a 1928 vintage fire truck in 1948.
This is the only known photograph of the 1915 Chester Erie Station agent’s office taken while the station was in operation. It was taken in October, 1922 for use in the Erie Magazine. L-r: Robert Marvin, Station Master & John I. Edwards.
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Photograph of work gang truck parked on what may be the Monroe-Chester Road. Note: benches mounted along sides of load bed. Left bench has blanket. License plate # 852-099 NY 1930. Sign on tree: "Rippo?an ? ?"
Advertisements; Fire engines & equipment; Fire extinguishers;
The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This illustrated advertisement was sent to store owner Joseph...
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
Photograph of W. J. Conklin Lumber's first truck carrying tree. This tree was from the Chamberlain Farm on the Washingtonville Road (near Johnson Road) and moved to the Frank O. Roe Residence on High St. in the Village of Chester (visible in...
Photo postcard of the Warehouse of Chester Produce Growers Association, Chester, N. Y. with fleet of five motor-trucks lined up in front of the warehouse.
4 photographs of Rhinebeck Coal Co.. (clockwise from top left) 1-large coal pile at Hog Bridge 2-coal truck delivering coal at Astor's Casino building 3-coal truck loading coal 4-coal truck stuck in mud
6 photographes (clockwise from top left): utility truck on side of road with man operating rock driller, photo of a house which was replaced by the future Central Hudson building does not originally belong to the page. It shows the north side of...
5 maintenance men at Dutchess Community College stand for a photo in front of a DCC pick up truck with a partially enclosed tail. The maintenance crew are as follows: Gilbert Johnson, James Twyman, John Risbello, Julius Torok and Harry Bostwick,...
Trucks used during the destruction of Red Schoolhouse. The license plate of the front truck is 415 520 NY Commercial. Piles of debris are behind and to the right of the vehicles. A tall pine tree is slightly off-centered in the photo, surrounded...