Second grade class at Valley Cottage School. Teacher - Miss Liz Irwin, usually taught combined 2nd and 3rd grades. Left to right - Back row - Artur Gambetti, Alan Garrison, Miss Irwin. 2nd girl Jean Lemm, 6th girl Sylvia Campbell.
Valley Cottage School before 1920's since the World War I memorial is not yet in place. Photo shows the East or the girls entrance. Building was one large room with floor to ceiling dividing doors running East and West. Grades 1-4 were in the...
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...
In 1927 the two-room schoolhouse on Western Highway in Blauvelt held about 60 pupils. Two teachers were in charge. Grades 1-4 were in one classroom and 5-8 in another.
In this 1925 article, Superintendent Homer J. Wightman describes the overcrowded conditions at the school building on Liberty Street, which held all of the grades until a new high school was opened in 1928.
All that was left of the Aniline Dye Company plant after the 1919 explosion was the chimney, which is the central image of the photo. Around the chimney the ground is covered with rubble. This picture and the three others were taken in 1937 when...
The first picture in the set entitled "Storm King Highway Along the Hudson River" is of the newly built highway with only two automobiles on it. The caption at the bottom reads, "Climbing the steep grades going north." Information inside the outer...
This building, located at the intersection of Maple Avenue and South Street in Clintondale, was built about 1800 by an early Quaker settler named Heaton. About 1810, a section of it became the first store in the Clintondale area, and it continued...
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...
School group photograph of Plattekill children in grades 4 and 5 in 1966-67. From left to right (kneeling) Ted Bennett and Bobby Bennett; (1st row) Sam Ortez, Ralph Encarnacion, Paula --?--, Ada Gonzales, Darlene Colandrea, Felix Castro, Brenda...
Plattekill Elementary School, circa 1942, soon after it was built. Modern brick building which is located within the unincorporated village of Plattekill along Route 32 in Ulster County, NY.
