The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This advertisement was sent to Joseph Durland, a founding member...
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...
Carte de visite head portrait of Sarah Maria Hasbrouck. The portrait is very small and only shows her head and part of her bodice. Sarah Maria is wearing glasses and her hair is parted in front with a bun (chignon) set half way up the back, while...
Fourth page of an announcement of a showing of "Our American Boys in the European War" on 1916-08-30 at the Gallery on the Moors in Gloucester, Massachusetts. With a pen-and-ink ornament depicting a bursting grenade superimposed on a horn-like...
Fourth page of announcement of a showing of "Our American Boys in the European War" on 1916-09-07 at the Building of Arts, in Bar Harbor, Maine. With a pen-and-ink ornament depicting a bursting grenade superimposed on a horn-like musical...
World War, 1914-1918; Men; Decoration and ornament
Three men (possibly including Henry Suckley) sit outside building with "C. Cuny H. LeBoeuf" over doorway. Man stands in doorway looking at something in his hands. Doors open in middle; each has paneling in the bottom & glass with decorative metal...