The Vema was the first Lamont ship. Built in 1923 for E. F. Hutton and christened Hussar—a 202-foot, three-masted, luxuriously appointed schooner. It was sold 11 years later to George Ungar Vetlesen, who renamed her Vema, for his wife, Maude...
The Conrad was a later Lamont ship. Lamont’s second ship, the Robert D. Conrad, a new research vessel built by the Navy and given to the Observatory to operate in 1962, embarked on ambitious, near-continuous research missions from the very...
A smokestack billowing black smoke and some industrial buildings of a stone quarry are located on the shoreline of a still body of water. Large cliffs of rock exposed by blasting lead into the body of water. Typed on the back on the photograph is...
This is a view through bare trees looking towards the Hudson River. The industrial buildings and smokestacks of the Lovett plant are seen in the distance on the river's near shore.
This slide shows a large mountain of material next to railroad tracks. A row of utility poles are almost completely buried as well as a portion of the railroad track.
Lederle Laboratories of the American Cyanimid Company occupies a huge campus on Middletown Road between Pearl River and Nanuet, NY. These buildings contain acres of productions lines, million dollar fermentation tanks, control labs, offices, and...
John Lodico, Sr. talks about growing up in Upper Nyack near the river in the Van Houten's Landing neighborhood near the river. He focuses on the Italian American immigrant culture there, particularly as epitomized by his father, his time at Nyack...
Army troops laden with backpacks and duffels board a train at Camp Shanks. During World War II, over a million soldiers began their journey overseas from this outpost in Rockland County.
Inventory form for building located on East Lake Rd; west side recording the following information: Samuel Bornstein (owner at time of inventory). 3-story; rectangular; stucco over tile; flat roof; dentils; quoins; Ionic pilasters; 6/1; 9/1;...
Inventory form for building located on Camp Comfort Rd. recording the following information: J. Woodhull Overton, M.D. (owner at time of inventory). A one and a half story rectangular, stucco on metal lath, with low gambrel roof, and six gabled...
