3 photographs. Top photo is of the Power Company building. Bottom left is of the generator. Bottom right is of a man with hat and shovel next to a mound of coal in front of boiler.
Soldiers; War; Patriotic envelopes; Civil service reform; Civil wars;
Having been detached from his company to the Navy in Mississippi, Meeker describes his new surroundings. He is concerned that he is yet to receive his boots or box of provisions that he had previously asked for. He is worried about his father's...
In a letter to his friend, Meeker describes life on a Civil War gunboat and the ongoing battle against the Rebel forces. He also talks about his position as messenger boy and powder boy on the gunboat and his salary of 18 dollars a month.
This image consists of two photographs positioned one above the other. The top photograph shows a baseball field with people lined up along the first and third base lines. There is an individual standing on the pitcher's mound holding an American...
This mound of dirt was in Sparkill opposite the Northern Railroad Depot. It covered the area "where the Sparkill National Bank and the hardware store now are." (Neither business is there today.) It was fill that was used for the factory area in...
On the porch of Cedar Mound Cottage, Grand-View-on-Hudson, are a man and two children. The house has board and batten siding, a fairly steep roof, and porch details that are suggestive of the Carpenter Gothic style. The location of this house is...
