This Wells Fargo & Co. Express Freight receipt document B. S. Woodhull shipping two packages from Criagville, N.Y. to Mrs. J. Coldwell, New Windsor, N.Y.
Post card of the Pennsylvania Turnpike running across Pennsylvania. Before World War II, the newly opened Pennsylvania Turnpike was a destination in itself.
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
Clippings; Water supply; Lakes & ponds; Actions & defenses; Lawyers;
This article reports on a lawsuit concerning the conflict between the Village of Chester's use and control of Walton Lake as its water supply and the surrounding property owners.
A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
The first trip of the "Clermont." The initial trip of the first steamboat, the "Clermont," invented by Robert Fulton, was made on Aug. 11th, 1807. Its destination was Albany, a distance of 150 miles from New York City, and the speed averaged five...
Interior view of Kindergarten class with young children at work at their tables. Students are engaged in some type of hand work. There is a doll house on the right side of the room. A young boy stands on a chair reaching to an unknown destination...
Looking down the river towards a bridge at the back of the image. The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States.
It rises in a mountainous...
Nyackers gathered in front of Harry Atwood's biplane after it landed in an Upper Nyack orchard. Harry Atwood was flying down the Hudson River at 50 miles per hour when a connecting rod in the airplane's engine melted and he came down in an Upper...
The Hotel St. George was the destination in Nyack in 1910. Only 28 miles from New York City, it was a stopping place for automobilists. Fine meals were served, a la carte, cuisine francaise. Felix Fieger was the proprietor.
Harry Atwood was speeding down the Hudson at 50 MPH when a connecting rod in airplane's engine melted and he came down in an Upper Nyack orchard, north of Lexow Avenue and west of Broadway. During the week he waited for repairs, nearly all of Nyack...
The Bear Mountain Inn was one of the early gems of the Palisades Interstate Park. It was (and is) a popular destination for both summer and winter activities and had rooms, a restaurant, and a cafeteria. Wisteria grew on the buildings sides, up to...
A passenger car, many passengers on the rear, and two women alighting at their destination. We do not know which of the Erie Railroad celebrations (reinactments) this was. We do not know the date or the location but assume it to be Piermont.
Nyack was once the premier shopping destination in Rockland County. Neisner's was a men's shop on the north side of Main Street. The Clock Restaurant was in the next building to the west.
A large number of men, women, and children, and also two horse-drawn carriages, pose in front of the St. Nichols Hotel on Main Street in Nyack. Several women are in open windows on the second floor of the three-story structure. The St. Nichols was...
