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 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.
The "S" shaped curve of a road, with a stone cliff climbing up on the left and a stone wall curving along the right. There is a sign on the wall on the right. Storm King Highway, also called Route 218, met with major opposition, but was blasted...
From p. 47 of "Old Nyack": " The 'Henry W. Longfellow', designed by William Voorhis, was an experiment in navigation launched in 1880. The vessel had two cigar-shaped hulls 200 feet long and 5 1/2 feet in diameter amidships. A single deck rested on...
Little Dirk R. DeWitt joins "Casey" in the cab of the massive engine on the Wallkill Valley Railroad, New Paltz-Gardiner section. This steam locomotive was an engine in the Ten Wheeler class (4-6-0s). It was originally one of twenty made in...
Leah is joined by her aunt Ann while staying on Staten Island. She writes about her trip to New York City. Leah is not feeling well and mentions how difficult the cold baths are. She writes about shopping, making calls and her attempts at having...
Five photographs showing an autombile accident with a large truck & trailer at a bridge. Sixth photograph is of a man sitting on top of a small truck with stuff tied down on the back. Caption reads, "Enroute to Yama Farms - The wreck."
Distant view of the Hudson River with the Half Moon and the Clermont ships, inset images of Henry Hudson on the upper left and Robert Fulton on the lower right. The bottom of the image contains a list of dates and description of activities for the...
Leah expects visitors and writes about how she and her young son, Tommy rode to Cornwall on the Thomas Powell. She mentions dreading dental work and feeling better due to wearing cotton around her hips. She also mentions that little Gertrude...
Petition sent to the New York State Legislature in 1813 to ask for the creation of a turnpike to run east to west between Suffern and Nyack. It would be titled the Nyack Turnpike.
The present Village of Saugerties was originally incorporated in 1831 as the Village of Ulster. This map is from 1850 before the name change to Saugerties in 1855. A penciled note; "(74734) [1850?]"; on the map face near the bottom right indicates...
A 1934 Packard and a delivery truck plow through the deep water along route 59 in West Nyack. This area near the Hackensack River has been prone to flooding after heavy rains for as long as there has been a roadway there.
This postcard shows First Avenue in Nyack. First Avenue runs from Broadway to the Hudson River. It appears this image was taken looking towards the Hudson River.
