Program used for the first graduating class of Dutchess Community College. Associate degrees in Arts and in Applied Science were granted as well as Certificates of Graduation. Guide contains a list of the graduating class of 1960 and an Order of...
"Rockland Female Institute," From The Tourist's Guide through the Empire State. 1871. Artist unknown. Opened in 1856, the institute provided higher education for women. It was located in South Nyack between Piermont Avenue and the Hudson River,...
The artist has numbered and labeled many architectural features of a Dutch-Flemish sandstone house, using the Smith House of Spring Valley, NY, as a guide. This style of architecture is unique to the Hudson River Valley.
Astrith Deyrup talks about her family and life in Upper Nyack and New York City. Astrith's father, Alvin S. Johnson was the 1st President of the New School for Social research in Manhattan. Her sister Felicia was a prominent artist. Both she and...
Dedication of the Normandy Airborne Mural at West Point, New York with speaker Lt. General James M. Gavin and featuring a watercolor done by Mr. Prescott.
Men standing on a plankway at the edge of the ice guide large slabs unto the elevators that lift them into the ice house. The huge buildings, insulated with hickory sawdust, would keep the ice cold until late summer. The photographer was a resident...
Documents; Leaflets; Banquets; Public speaking; Events; Sports
First annual athletic awards banquet program guide. Included in the program is the date, time, place, menu, guest speakers and honorees. The banquet was held in the college cafeteria on June 3, 1959.
Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw has markers to three Labrador explorers. Leonidas Hubbard died trying to cross Labrador. His wife, Nina (or Mina?) Benson Hubbard, completed her husband's trek. George Elson, a guide, recovered Mr. Hubbard's body.
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...
On February 10, 2007, an event at the Nyack Center commemorating Black History Month honored Penny Jennings, Henry Jones, and Johnsie Valdez of Head Start of Rockland. "Join Nyack center in honoring those in our community who guide and care for...
Single row onion set planter guided manually by a farmhand walking behind, but pulled by a tractor. The chains driven off the rear wheels operated mechanisms that dropped onion sets at designated intervals into the furrow plowed by the blades...
