Detailed account book kept by Ann DeWitt Bevier after the death of her husband, Philip DuBois Bevier. The majority of the entries fall between the years 1802-1805. The account book shows that she was part of a network of farmers, laborers, and...
Fourteen page inventory of Cornelius Dubois Jr. created April 1816. The inventory lists several household and agriculture items. Page twelve lists seventeen coverlets (spelled coverlits) for 65 dollars. Four enslaved Africans are listed on page...
Photograph taken in the Chester meadows (black dirt) north of looking of the Erie Main Line, looking west towards Meadow Avenue. Micky Cassisison lived in last house on right.
3 boys on ladders, 3 men on ground with barrels under apple tree. Unused photographic postcard with divided back. Printed on front: "Picking Apples, Berk. Ind. Farm, Canaan, NY"; Printed on back: "H.M. Gillet, Photgraphic Post Cards, Lebanon...
Man driving a horse-drawn sickle bar pulled by 2 horses, with unharvested field in rear and trees and building in background. The image was probably taken in Columbia County, New York.
Single row onion set planter guided manually by a farmhand walking behind, but pulled by a tractor. The chains driven off the rear wheels operated mechanisms that dropped onion sets at designated intervals into the furrow plowed by the blades...
Label for Farm products supplied to Mrs. W. W. Reis, or Caroline Wright Reis, by Westchester County Farm Bureau. Caroline Wright Reis managed the farm she inherited from her family, and sold hay, produce, and fruit to local and regional...
