"Now and Then and Long Ago" was compiled by Cornelia Bedell from other books, newspaper articles and new writings. The following excerpt was written in 1932 about a map of the Nyack Turnpike.
When this picture was taken, the Nyack's Presbyterian church was surrounded by a picket fence. Broadway and DePew Avenue had not been paved and on this day, were muddy. The white frame building has a multi-tiered steeple and a portico entryway. The...
Cover of "Your Job at Dexter's" the employee manual for the Dexter Folder Company in Pearl River, N.Y. The wartime handbook was once owned by Anton Walter on September 1, 1941. There is a dark band across the handbook near the top that says, "Your...
Dinsmore house in winter. Written on back: Built by William B. Dinsmore in 1887. Demolished 1941. Now the property of Mrs. Lytle Hill, with a new house on approximately the same site.
Harvey Fite presenting the bench given in memory of Dr. Louis Feloy Corti in June of 1948. At the time, the Bardian reported on the event, stating: " Dr. Corti was a teacher of the Romance Languages at the College from 1924 to 1941 and was loved...
This is a photograph of milling machines at Dexter Folder during war production years 1941 - 1945. There is a stack of pipes on the floor in the foreground. There is a man and a woman working at a machine in the background on the right. There...
This is an account by Alice Haagensen of the involvement of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Standard Oil company in the Palisades and Sneden's Landing area. Several sentences concerning a pier are highlighted in yellow.
This photograph is slightly out of focus. It shows a small, mansard-roofed house. There is a set of stairs leading to the entry-door on the right side of the building. The grass in front of the house is overgrown and a large pine tree obscures the...
Unfortunately, this well-preserved nineteenth century house has no recorded history. The architectural features are mostly plain, but the upper and lower porch balustrades are detailed and different. It is on the 1884 Burleigh map, "Nyack on the...
This is a large factory room with men working at a variety of machines. There are piles of supplies on the foreground. There are several work tables and bins around each machine. These Dexter Folder workers are milling precision parts during the...
This photograph is looking down a long room full of people working at machines on tables. At one end of each machine table there is a half barrel on legs, with spouts at the bottom of each of them and handles on the sides. This photograph depicts...
This is a large room full of machines and workers. There are work tables around each machine with machine parts stacked and scattered on each. A large American flag is hanging from the ceiling.
Machinery; Industry; Factories; Employees; Paper industry; Flags;
This is a photograph of men working at several large machines. There are boxes of gears and other machine parts on the floor in the foreground. There is an American flag hanging against the wall in the background. This image captures war...
