Advertisements; Fire engines & equipment; Fire extinguishers;
The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This illustrated advertisement was sent to store owner Joseph...
Dry plate negatives; Mothers; Children; Stone buildings; Country life;
Nevada (Nena) Teator and her two children are standing in front of the summer kitchen on the family farm. Tin pails are hung to the right of the wooden door of the stone building. The steps on the right lead into the farm house.
Dry plate negatives; School children; Snow; Sleds & sleighs; Fences;
Eight children are returning home from school. The children are standing in the snow by a picket fence. Two sleds are parked in the snow. The children are dressed in hats, coats and scarves. Some of the children are carrying lunch pails and school...
Landscape pavilions; Tents; Kitchens; Shaving; Military camps; Cooking utensils; Pails;
A man shaves at an outside stand; three men pose inside a tent kitchen. Buckets, pots, pans and kitchen utensils are visible. Caption on back reads: "Camp Fort Orange Kitchen" Upon the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the German Empire,...
The Deyo family pose in front of the house of Andrew and Agnes Deyo. From left to right; Joseph Deyo, Andrew LF. Deyo, Agnes Deyo, Elizabeth Deyo, Mary Deyo and unknown man.
Swine; Slaughtering; Pails; Country life; Photographs;
Seven women, four men, five children and a baby pose near slaughtered headless pig carcasses. The woman on the far left of the photograph is holding a hatchet. The five carcasses are eviscerated and hanging from trusses. two wooden buckets are on...
One end of this two story brick building has a flat corniced roof, and on the other end of the building the roof rises into a gable. A note indicates original use was as a firehouse. In the brickwork, there is evidence of the building's firehouse...
A large bare tree stands at the curb in front of this cross-gabled house with clapboard siding. A single step leads to a small covered entry porch that has decorative brackets at the top of the turned-wood columns. There is a bicycle on the porch...
This drawing of the Storms Cedar Pail Factory is on an 1854 map of Nyack. The buildings were located on the site of Memorial Park. Workmen, tools, and pails are pictured in the center of the image. Photo made from a John Scott slide.
On display are a washtub and four pails, all made of cedar. The brothers, Abraham and Henry Storms, started the cedar pail factory in 1840. The small workshop employed seven and secured the cedar from North Carolina and Florida and the hoops from...
The Storms Steam Tub and Pail Factory was on the waterfront, just north of the present day Memorial Park. This was a small workshop; in 1850, it employed seven men. Abraham and Henry Storms began the business in 1840. The cedar came from North...
