Poster advertising Brook Farm's record holding trotting horses for Half-Mile Tracks. Richard Delafield, President of National Park Bank of New York owned Brook Farm. Bud Murray was the farm superintendent.
Photograph of Board Farm on West Ave.
Jonathan Board, built the house in 1863. Originally, the house was built with an inverted roof system which funneled rain water into a cistern located in the basement. Leaks proved to be a problem and...
Photograph of nine workmen shoveling snow on Brook Farm hill, with two people looking on from horse drawn sleigh or wagon.
Overlooking downtown Chester. The Corporation building is the first one on the right.
Photograph of Nellie Marvin’s wedding party: Mrs. McCready, Mrs. Houston, Miss Bessie -, Mr. Conklin, Mrs. Conklin, Mrs. Reed, Mr. McCready, Mr. Marvin, Mr. Basin (groom), Nellie (bride), Lerra Wilson, Mrs. Marvin, George Wilson, Isabelle...
Edmond Butler's Brook Farm was located in Chester, N.Y. and was well renowned for their award winning Jersey cattle. Photographed, left to right: John A. Perree, Jersey; Lieutenant H. A. Strohmeyer, New Jersey; Edmond Butler, New York; Bartley A....
On the old Monroe-Chester road. Sign on tree: "Mountain View Game Preserve" as viewed from the farmhouse looking easterly. This is nown as the Thaddeus Seely Farm, "According to [Mildred Parker] Seese, Thaddeus Seely built this house in 1752. The...
Photograph of the Mountain View Farm & Game Preserve on the old Monroe-Chester road as viewed from across the street looking westerly. Known as the Thaddeus Seely Farm, "According to [Mildred Parker] Seese, Thaddeus Seely built this house in 1752....
Photographs; Group portraits; Farms; Soldiers; Guides & scouts;
Panoramic photograph with Brook Farm buildings in background. From May Murray's diary:
Wednesday, May 30, 1917
"On the way back from the cemetery, the parade went up to Brook Farm and had pictures taken - firemen - soldiers - Boy Scouts -...
This butter waybill is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in the...
This Sled Shoes waybill is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. >Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in...
