Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 6. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office," published by Town of Hyde Park Historical Society: In the late 1780s. Dr. John Bard and Dr. Samuel Bard examine their new Italian melons, fertilized with...
Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 7. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "The Bard Hosack Farm with the Red House (built 1764 by Dr. John Bard, located north of St. James Church, model for the present Post Office). Merino sheep imported to...
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
The Town of Chester public health ordinances required by the State of New York regulate whatever is dangerous to human life or to the health and what-ever renders the air or food and water or drink unwholesome including burials, contagious...
Leah writes about Daniel losing his hat from a train car, her illness and Sisey's influenza. She writes about many of the "invalids" she meets in Saratoga.
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...
Leah writes of Thomas' affliction. His sore finger has made him unable to write. Leah herself is ill and has been confined to bed. The doctor suspects bilious fever. She thinks about Maria's children often, especially after losing her son. She...
Women; Correspondence; Diseases; Medicine; Health care;
Twelve days after the death of Leah's baby Mary, Leah has become quite feeble. Thomas writes, "I must say that I have not
all along entertained in my own mind any doubt as to her recovery." Leah has been treated with cod liver oil which appeared to...
Black and white postcard showing the Nyack Hospital in Nyack, NY. This is an exterior image, showing the hospital. The back of the postcard reads " The present enlarged hospital was opened December 8, 1925, and is in every respect a modern and...
Meeker and his company are now at the new barracks which are almost completed. His company has lost men due to small pox and other diseases. A funeral procession took place which Meeker commented on as being particularly sad because it was the day...
This letter from Elizabeth Elmendorf to her mother mentions the Stamp Act and scarcity of tea. She also writes about a sickness with a rash and sore throat which takes its victims quickly.
