Steps with a wooden handrail lead down the sloping lawn to a partially visible one-story home with picture window. Prominent in the yard is a grotto with a Virgin Mary statue set into the small hill with retaining wall forming the border between...
This class of twenty-five Nyack grammar school pupils gazes intently at the camera. Their teacher, Douglas Matthewson, is in the center of the back row. The children in the front row are seated on a low bench; the second row on barrels.
Tunis DePew, a trustee in 1880 and the president of the Board of Education in 1884, gazes away from the photographer. His face is clean-shaven, except for a fringe beard. Tunis was a Nyack businessman, owned much land, and had the greenhouses down...
Nyack teacher Mary Sprott gazes to the left as she did in the earlier photo. Her hair has thinned but is still piled on her head. Her high-collared dress has many small pleats in the front.
Warren Palmetier gazes up as his picture is taken. He lived on Jewett Place in Nyack and was active in local government, serving as Water Commissioner and as Village Trustee.
W. H. Thompson, gray hair and glasses, gazes steadily at the camera. He lived on Central Avenue in Nyack and was active in local government, serving on the Water Board and as Village Trustee.
Mary Virginia Parkhurst, in white blouse with brooch at the collar, gazes away from the photographer's lens. Virginia was a reporter and editor for the Rockland Journal-News and historian for the Village of Nyack.
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Mrs. Sherwood Hard, wearing a simple sleeveless sheath trimmed with embroidery, gazes at the camera. She was the chairman of the Women's Political Union of the Nyacks in 1914.
Michael Furey, a long-time Nyack police officer, gazes stolidly at the camera, his face lined and weather beaten. The note on the back, written by reported Virginia Parkhurst, is unclear: "Michael Furey long-time Nyack police officer and off. of...
Helen Hayes rests her chin on her hands as she gazes at the camera. A world famous actress on screen and stage, she was an active member of the Nyack community.
This young woman gazes fixedly at the camera. She is wearing a dark shawl and a skirt trimmed with wide chevrons. Her hand is on a pillar attached to a railing, part of the photographer's studio.
A young woman gazes solemnly past the photographer. Her dark dress is offset by a wide white collar, where she wears a brooch. Her hair has been braided and pulled back onto the nape of her neck. But her identity is unknown.
