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...
Portrait of Daniel Carter Beard. Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850– June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, and social reformer who was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Beard died on June 11, 1941, at...
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...
Members of the Nyack High School marching band, attired in uniforms of dark shirts and capes with white trousers, stand on the high school steps. In front is Madelyn Hall, the leader.
Virginia Meriwether Davies, known as Dockie, is ready to deliver corn that was grown on the Davies Farm. Niles M. Davies, Jr. and his cousin , Arthur Bowen Davies, carry the bushel of corn between them. At age 82, Dockie was hit by a bus while in...
Elba J. Lovatt stands holding a branch of a fruit tree. She was a life-long resident of Nyack, a 1916 graduate of Nyack High School, a teacher at the Liberty Street School, and the wife of Edward Lovatt, mayor of Nyack from 1937 to 1941.
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...
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...
Elba J. Lovatt stands holding a branch of a fruit tree. She was a life-long resident of Nyack, a 1916 graduate of Nyack High School, a teacher at the Liberty Street School, and the wife of Edward Lovatt, mayor of Nyack from 1937 to 1941.There are...
The plaque erected by the Historical Society of Rockland County says, "Carson McCullers 1917-1967. Carson McCullers, writer and dramatist, made this house her home from 1945 to her death on September 29, 1967. Born in Columbus, Ga., on February 19,...
School children; Students; Education; One-room schools;
Photograph of school children in front of Prospect Hill School, circa 1917. This school was referred to before 1884 as the "Birdsall School" and was located south-west of the hamlet of Plattekill, near the Orange County line. The original school...
Inventory form for building located on Continental Rd; at intersection Ledge Ln. and Clubhouse Rd. recording the following information: Boynton (owner at time of inventory. Large 2-story; gable roof; stucco; 6/6; dormers; belt course; hood on...
Inventory form for building located on West Lake Rd. recording the following information: A two and a half story stucco over a stone foundation. Gabled roof with gabled roof extension, half-timbering in gable. Simple extension over front porch...
Two nurses wearing protective masks care for newborn children in the infant nursery at Vassar Brothers Hospital. Nurse at center cradling an infant. Nurse at left looking at infant in a bassinet.
