One of the Student Fire Department's two engines, a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank Ford equipped with 150 feet of hose. Elie Shneour, one of the founding members of the Fire Department, suggested that the fire truck be white, rather than red, to...
Four men stand posed around the Bard College Fire Department Engine #2: one at the passenger door, one at the driver side door, and two at the front bumper. The truck contained a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank and 150 feet of hose. The stone building...
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...
Panel 10 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "Late for Friends Meeting at Crum Elbow Meeting House (built about 1797). The home in the foreground was built by Benjamin Sheldon, those in the background are...
The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This advertisement was sent to Joseph Durland, a founding member...
The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This advertisement was sent to Joseph Durland, a founding member...
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The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This illustrated advertisement was sent to store owner Joseph...
Black-tie optional invitation to the spring gala in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Dutchess Community College. The event was at The Grandview on Rinaldi Boulevard, Poughkeepsie, NY on Saturday, March 29, 2008. Ticket prices...
Author Dorothy S. Davis, born in 1916, in the library for the annual meeting. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, winner of the 1985 Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America is one of the founding members of Sisters in Crime Organization.
This is a photograph of a page of Cole's "History of Rockland County, N. Y." Dr. Jacob Outwater Polhemus, a stern looking man with mutton chops, was a popular physician and founder of Nyack Hospital. At one time, he owned the house at 44 Fifth...
A white-haired gentleman with a walrus moustache faces the camera. He is wearing a formal suit with white shirt and tie. In his left hand is a rolled up program. The Lenox (MA) Library Association confirmed that the man is Grenville Dean Wilson....
This sepia-toned picture is on the front cover of a booklet entitled, "The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Consecration and the Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of St. Ann's Church, Nyack, NY."
In September 1908 Marion Guerney, a recent convert to Catholicism, and four other women - Amelia Merceret, Margaret Coleman, Julia Foley, and Elizabeth Lemmers - began to work among the immigrant poor in the settlement houses in New York City....
The history of this charming house, known as the Tunis Smith house, is described in "Survey of Historic Buildings Village of Nyack, New York" by Nieweg and Reimann. All of the exterior building materials have been replaced, except for the...
