Lithographs; Boat & ship industry; Churches; Religious dwellings
Top caption reads: McCausland's Ship Yard, Dry Dock and Saw Mill, Rondout, Ulster County, N.Y. Bottom caption reads: Cathloic church and parsonage, Port Ewen. Reverend F.W. Brady, Pastor.
Looking across the ship yard out over the Hudson River. There are bricks, boards, and debris lying on the ground. Several partial boats and wooden barrels and wooden posts are in the foreground.
The boat Arrow is illustrated in a hand drawn advertisement for Samuel Ayers & Son, boat builders. The ship yard was in Upper Nyack. This is on the back of an Ackerman and Dutcher photograph, "Beach Upper Nyack (#0003)."
A view from the river of the business of Julius Petersen, "designing and building of power boats of all descriptions." The building is ornate and has a sign "Builder of Launches." This was once the Nyack Rowing Association building. Petersen later...
The Hudson River is frozen and trapped in the ice at Smith's Shipyard are several sloops, their masts rising above the horizon. A bearded man stands on the ice in front of the nearest sloop. Photo made from a John Scott slide.
The ferry boat "Tappan Zee", shown docked in Nyack, began its trips across the Hudson River in 1878. It was the predecessor of the "Rockland." The tugboat to its left was under repair.
Six woodworkers stand in a huge workroom that's filled with wood and cutting tables. The floor is covered with wood shavings and narrow pieces of wood are stored in the rafters. The location of the shop is unknown.
This aerial view of Petersen's boatyard in Upper Nyack shows a very large boat building operation. Two long sheds flank the two-story Julius Petersen building. In the lower right are several dry-docks and a launching cradle.
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...
John Lodico, Sr. talks about growing up in Upper Nyack near the river in the Van Houten's Landing neighborhood near the river. He focuses on the Italian American immigrant culture there, particularly as epitomized by his father, his time at Nyack...
Upper Nyack village historian Win Perry takes a walk around the Van Houten’s landing historic district discussing the history of the neighborhood, its homes and its residents. Along the way he talks with Eugene Brown of 10 Castle Heights...
