Portrait photographs; Cartes de visite; Women; Hairstyles;
Carte de Visite head portrait of Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, which was most likely copied from a daguerreotype at Slee Brother in Poughkeepsie, New York after her death in 1858. Sarah Maria is wearing glasses and her hair is parted in front with a bun...
Carte de visite head portrait of Sarah Maria Hasbrouck. The portrait is very small and only shows her head and part of her bodice. Sarah Maria is wearing glasses and her hair is parted in front with a bun (chignon) set half way up the back, while...
Nineteen hexagon patches (with paper still inside) have been sewn together to form this pincushion which has been finished off with silk fringe similar to that used on women's clothing in the 1850s and '60s. The color combination and patterns seem...
Carroll Scott Waldron at Work
A great deal of mystery and legend surrounds the life of Carroll Scott Waldron (1837-1921). His self-styled biography, for example, announces that he was born in a log cabin in Henderson County, Illinois. Carroll...
The two-story brick residence at 43 North Broadway is hemmed in by commercial establishments. It was built in the 1850s by Abraham Ackerman, a local master mason. In 1984, an attempt was made to photograph all buildings in the village of Nyack that...
The four-story building that housed the Hudson River Military Academy in the early 1900s had many other uses. It began in the 1850s as the Rockland Female Institute. During the summers, when school was not in session, it was used as a resort - the...
This box-shaped, Italianate dwelling had a clapboard exterior when it was built in the late 1850s. The stucco was applied about 1919. William Mathews, a river pilot who later owned the Nyack Express Company, was the original owner.
This moderately-sized house has several unique features: round upper windows, a cut-out semi-circular bargeboard, and a cut-out upper balustrade. The first occupant in the 1850s was nurseryman John P. Taylor, and later it was owned and occupied by...
This double business building, 55 & 57 Burd Street, Nyack, was built in the 1850s. Very attractive and authentic!These are very visible on the 1884 Burleigh map, Nyack on the Hudson.
Union Hall is displayed in the center of an elaborate cut-out mat with a border. The three-story building is plain, with a large entrance on the left side of the ground floor. A man stands in the entry way and another man poses on the roof. The...
This is a document prepared by typewriter. It discussed some interesting history and trivia regarding the Village of Piermont. The document discusses events that took place roughly between the 1840's - 1940's. Only the passage on the 'Cedar Grove...
