At least three generations of the Klein family pose outside their large house with a high stairway. All are dressed for a special occasion. There are two Kleins listed in the local directories in the Nyack Library, one at Main Street near...
A beautifully colored postcard folder depicts the Storm King Highway, which was built between West Point and Cornwall, NY, in the 1920s. The road was cut into the side of Storm King Mountain, high above the Hudson River. The steady climb that takes...
Here are three generations of an unknown family. On the right is a mother with three young children, two girls and a boy. A man sits to the left of the woman and children. Is he the father or the grandfather? Seated on his left is the matriarch of...
Several people have gathered at the fishing pond. In the foreground is a man with a pole and two women sitting and talking. Another man is on a raft in the pond. There is a young man on the far shore. The area looks fairly flat. Power poles line...
A old, unpainted frame house on brick supports is sagging and falling apart. Actually, the structure may be a barn. On the left is another building that is more like a barn.
Hook Mountain is in the distance, with the dock for the stone crushing operation beneath it. Another dock - probably a private one - is in the middle distance. The photograph was taken when the tide in the Hudson River was low.
Beneath the sign, "Welcome to Pearl River," is another: "Oral Polio Vaccine Capital of the World." Lederle Labs, at one time the largest employer in Rockland County, produced the polio vaccine.
The Erie Station in Nanuet was just west of the main street, Middletown Road. A branch led from here to New City, the Rockland County seat, and another line joined from the south, the New Jersey & New York.
A man is seated on a rocky slope above a simple cabin, where another man stands in the yard. In the middle distance are the villages of South Nyack and Nyack, and farther away are Hook Mountain and the Hudson River.
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.
Eyebeams are going up for the 1973 addition to the Nyack Library. The addition would cover the back wall of the original Carnegie building and would add another floor below the level of the stone building.
This long and low house was built in 1906, another homestead carved out of the extensive Peter J. Smith property. The wide porch has unusual double pillars. Above the porch roof are two types of dormers. In the 1970s, Cohen Meyer, who had a...
89 Depot Place is larger than its neighbors at 85 and 87 but is the same style. The porch is partly open and partly enclosed. The entrance is set back on the left side. A bargeboard crosses the front eaves in an arc. This house has another porch on...
This is one of the oldest houses on Old mountain Road in grand View, NY. Built about 1850 by Squire T. Lawrence, it appears that this house was expanded at some time, either by an outright addition or by joining it to another small house. Either...
Another of the several mansard-roofed house on Prospect Street, #46 retains its double brackets and hooded third-story windows. It's a pleasant corner house with a wraparound porch.
Arms crossed, heels together, a man looks directly at the photographer. His top hat sits on the pedestal that also appears in another Nyack Library image (#4323).
