This is the 1919 Senior Annual: the yearbook of the New Paltz State Normal School. It contains pictures of students, social events, sororities, and the local landscape. Also contains numerous original poems and other literary works.
This short stairway which led from the Carnegie Room (circulation desk) to the reference levels of the Nyack Library held a small collection of prints by the Hill family of West Nyack. In the present configuration of the library, the prints are in...
Sketchbook contains sketches of landscapes with color notations. An original poem is written on the first page. Please see transcription of poem above.
Front cover of Pawling School's 1921 yearbook, The Scroll. Most of the images in this exhibit, "The Acting Debut of Robert Montgomery - Where It All Began," are digitized scans from this yearbook.
Spook Rock, a supposedly haunted location in Tallman, NY is a large multi-faceted boulder with trees growing out of it. A small boy in Victorian garb sits on the left.
"My Tippoo" plate. Features image of boy and dog with the following verse: "Then as he grew in strength and size. Who watched with eager whine my eyes. And seemed my every thought to prize. MY TIPPOO." Plate design features raised floral border...
The plaque erected by the Historical Society of Rockland County says, "Carson McCullers 1917-1967. Carson McCullers, writer and dramatist, made this house her home from 1945 to her death on September 29, 1967. Born in Columbus, Ga., on February 19,...