Horses; Carriages & coaches; Utility poles; Streets; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water);
Color postcars showing the Bight in Grandview, NY. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or " a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007) This postcard was postmarked May 21, 1909, it...
Horses; Carriages & coaches; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water); Utility poles;
Postcard showing the Bight in Grandview. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or "a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007). This postcard is postmarked March 8, 1905. It was sent...
The Brookside estate owned by Edgar Tilton in Suffern, N.Y. There is handwriting along the bottom of the postcard: "Our house. It snowed again yesterday, but we are still hoping for spring. ?" The messages are dated March 20, 1907.
The steamer "Chrystenah" nears the dock below Rockland Landing. Passengers will disembark and ride up the hill to Rockland Lake. A tugboat waits at the right. The photographer was a resident of Rockland Lake, NY.
Caroline McIntosh, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Nyacks, wrote to Peter Raso informing that he and his brothers had been selected as the recipients of the 1985 Citizen of the Year award.
This group of third graders stand solemnly and still and yet their class photo is very dark. In the front row is a fine assortment of striped socks. They would have finshed grammar school - eighth grade- in six years.
A crowd is listening to this unidentified singer during the first "Clearwater' sloop fund-raising festival to be held in Nyack. Memorial Park on the waterfront was the setting in August 1970. A large sign in the background proclaims, "This river is...
Author and economist Ralph Borsodi built this homestead just north of Suffern, NY, over a ten-year period, 1924-34, and then developed a "School for Living." His enclave led to his Bayard Lane and West Nyack's Van Houten Fields and other...
The 1975 watercolor painting, "Hopper House," by Edwin L. Dahlberg, was reproduced as stationery by the Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Committee in 1984. The simple frame house was the birthplace and boyhood home of Edward Hopper, the American...
At the foot of Burd Street once stood a building, an old storage tank, that had been redesigned to look like a lighthouse. It was used as a retail business. Slightly uphill are houses and warehouses.
"Now and Then and Long Ago" was compiled by Cornelia Bedell from other books, newspaper articles and new writings. The following excerpt was written in 1932 about a map of the Nyack Turnpike.
Kevin Egan of Upper Nyack, John Dow - congressman, and Gene Setzer of Nyack stand together with index fingers extended to show a one vote margin. The accompanying note reads, "Virginia, Democrats wanted a photo of Kevin Egan and others showing...
A crowd at the launching of the "Palisades." In the center of the crowd is Harry Brearley, the writer who lived in house #28, 75 Washington Spring Road.
The launching of the "Palisades." A picture of the ship itself, named the "Palisades" because Palisades bought so many Liberty Loans during World War I.
In 1939, Edward Hopper painted a picture of the house known as "Pretty Penny" for his neighbor, Helen Hayes. To raise money to save Hopper's birthplace, the Edward Hopper Preservation Foundation produced this stationery in 1985, noting that the...
Posters; Performances; Theatrical productions; Fund raising; Advertisements;
A poster advertising the performance of "The House of the Flashing Light" performance at the Pearl River Free Library. This poster is from a fundraiser for the Pearl River Free Library Association in 1934 to help fund the association. The play was...
