From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" Panel 1(a): Some time between September 12 and 20 Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" may have anchored near Rhinecliff. A sailor chopping a tree is watched by Indians" who have burned a tree around its base....
Scene from history of Rhinebeck ca. 1774. "General Richard Montgomery and his wife, Janet Livingston, plant locust seedlings on what will become the lawn of "Grasmere." The bricks were baked in a home-made kiln. An ox tramples clay near an...
Preliminary artist's sketch for Panels 9 and 10 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. Panel 9: "1865. A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National...
Sketch for panels depicting General Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston planting locust seedlings, as well as for image of cornshucking bee, c.a. 1780. Sketches for the Rhinebeck post office murals were first executed by Dowsand trasferred to...
Sketch for Rhinebeck Post Office mural panel depicting a 1780's "cornshucking bee."
Sketches for the Rhinebeck post office murals were first executed by Dowsand trasferred to linen canvas which was then colored with thin turpentine glazes and...
"Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the present structure (built by John Coddington in 1809) are made of contributed stone, tow...
The "Clermont" sails by Slate Dock on its August 17th, 1807 maiden voyage. The "Clermont" was designed by Robert Fulton, built in partnership with Robert Livingston, and named after Livingston's Hudson Valley estate. Though Fulton's project was...
". . . The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799....
Adults; Civil Wars; Military camps; Military discharges; Military life; Military organizations; Military officers; Military personnel; Military service; History; Soldiers; Books; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Cemeteries; People; People...
Commemorative ledger containing personal records, recollections, and cemetery records of local soldiers who served in the Ward Post 191 during the Civil War.
Sketchbook contains sketches of landscapes with color notations. An original poem is written on the first page. Please see transcription of poem above.
These drawings have been extracted from Nathaniel Booth's journal entry dated March 19, 1875. Booth drew these sketches while visiting Crane's Lyceum. The students depicted are members of the Hampton School.
Three miniature ink drawings on paper created by Alfred Hasbrouck. The first two entitled "Locust Lawn ink drawing" and "Locust Lawn ink drawing 1839" are the front west view of Locust Lawn, the Josiah Hasbrouck House. The road is visible, which is...
A sketch of George M. Lawrence, 1799-1873. He was a shopkeeper and the second Palisades postmaster. The second image is of the Heider or Heather family.
Photographs; Religious dwellings; Churches; Sketches;
A sketch of the Old Parsonage, West Nyack (in front of the Clarkstown Reformed church) before being moved across the highway. This sketch is from the 1876 Atlas.
This is a sketch of John Henry Hill working at his desk. By Thomas Charles Farrer, brother of Henry. Farrer a lover of Ruskin sketched by Ruskin's pen pal H. Farrer. The sketched is signed.
A Christmas Greeting card with a picture of the Nyack Turnpike looking east at Hackensack River, which is an unfinished watercolor sketch by John William Hill, 1872
