A dormitory suite in Albee in the 1920s or 1930s. Two armchairs sit in either corner of a front room; there is a side table with an electric lamp pushed against a wall. A rocking chair and dresser are visible in the next room.
In this picture, the St. Stephen's cross country team, named "The Scarlet Harriers," poses on the steps of the Memorial Gymnasium. One race that became popular in the 1920s was the 'Whaleback Run,' a three mile cross country race through the...
Football was popular at St. Stephen's in the 1920s, as it was on college campuses across the country. This picture is undated, but a study of contemporary yearbooks indicates that this was probably taken around 1924.
Mary (Tonetti) Lawrence, 1868-1945, with her dog. She is the daughter of H. E. Lawrence. She was a sculptor and landowner who rented to many artists from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Heyhoe, Mr. Gilman Sr's house on Route 9W, after the fire in 1920s. Heyhoe was a house on Rockland Road owned by Clinton Cilbert and sold in 1871 to Winthrop S. Gilman.
This is a hand colored postcard featuring a photograph of the Newburgh Armory which is located at 145 Broadway in Newburgh, N.Y. The postmark is Oct. 7, 1914. It is addressed to Mrs. Orvetta Sears, Mountainville, Orange Co., N.Y. The message...
This picture doesn't show all the details of this pre-1924 house on Shadyside Avenue. Was it once called the cobble house? Note the cobblestone porch pillars. The Kenneth Sweet family lived here in the 1920s. There are fifty steps leading to the...
The four-story, h-shaped building has balconies on two of the floors. Cadets are standing on the balconies. Others are on horseback on the driveway. The academy was located on the east side of Piermont Avenue just north of Cornelison Avenue. This...
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
This dwelling at 257 South Broadway was a typical Victorian house with a Queen Anne tower and a veranda until the 1920s. Then it was transformed with brick and grillwork. This house may have been a speakeasy during Prohibition.
In 1978, Architect John Hadley created these two drawings of the South Nyack church, First Church of Christ, Scientist. The frame building was completed about 1870 for Universalist meetings, but that congregation was always small. By the 1920s, the...
This mansard house in South Nyack has an unusual horse collar gable and long molded windows. The footings on the window moldings are unique. The sleeping porch (on the right) was a typical addition of the 1920s.
The scene - a young girl standing by a stone pillar and an early automobile chugging up the dirt lane - is much older than the 1940 postmark on the card. Vanderbilt Waldron ran a general store in Sloatsburg in the 1920s.
Three butchers, tentatively identified as the Wolgemuth brothers - Charles, Joseph, and Roy,stand behind the counter of Koehler's Market. The meat business was started by Lenhard Wolgemuth in the late 1880s, sold to Henry Koehler in the 1890s, and...
Members of the Foresters of America pose outside their hall, which stood at the corner of Main and Second Street in New City. Many of the members of this fraternal organization hold flowers and wear ribbons with medals attached. A few members have...
