This photo was labeled "Jennie Stall in Wedding Dress".A young lady is wearing a floor length, high neck, white dress with ruffles at the hem. Lace adorns the long sleeves and collar of the dress. A large bow is at the neckline and a smaller bow is...
A young mother and her toddler baby are posed in Victorian dress. The baby is sitting on the mother's lap on a fur throw. The curly haired child is holding and looking at an identified object. The child is wearing a long dress, with elbow length...
A young woman is standing on the sidewalk near a clapboard house. She is wearing a full length, high collared dress with long sleeves. Her hat appears to be decorated with large bows and artificial birds.
Two young women are standing by a barn door in Victorian dress. The girl on the left is wearing a floor length dress with a belt and long sleeves. The second girl has a three quarter length gingham dress with long sleeves. Both girls are wearing...
Written on back: River Side Hotel. Hyde Park, N.Y. near the railroad station. L-r: ?Curry, ?, William Curry, William Meyer, ?, ?, ?, ?, George Biblyon (in shirt sleeves).
Two men pose on the front porch of the Independent Printing Office; one man in shirt sleeves stands on the bottom step. The frame structure was built in 1888 for Ralph LeFevre, longtime publisher and editor of the "New Paltz Independent", a local...
A woman poses for a half length studio portrait. Her gigot sleeves and extraordinary hat are perfect for the late 1890s. The hat, a riot of ruched velvet, ribbons and exotic feathers, sits above her piled up hair. The fur collar, creates the...
Two young women pose for a studio portrait. Their dress suggests that some special occasion, perhaps party or graduation. The young woman on the left as we view her wears a dress of printed fabric, her sleeves elaborated with a series of peplums...
This woman's hair is long and conservatively drawn back, but not upswept. Her light colored dress, probably cotton, features interesting gatherings at hips and shoulders with white cuffs on the ¾ length sleeves and cut work medallions on the...
Two children, an adolescent boy and a young child accompanied by a dog. The boy wears high laced shoes. Long ribbed hose cover his legs below short pants with side laces. His three button jacket closes from right to left rather than left to...
This young girl's dress is certainly silk, as the light reflects from it. The deep handkerchief-pointed collar is further enhanced with the addition of wide lace. Lace can also be seen on the hem of her petticoat. Ruffles inside her bonnet echo...
This portrait is of a young woman. Both bodice and sleeves display the use of machine lace in great yardage to create the silhouette of the day. In this instance her very tame hairdo is enhanced with a small knot of feathers.
This older woman with erect posture, beautiful dress and severe hair style wears a two piece dress of a printed silk, with gigot sleeves and elaboration at her wrists and shoulder lines of black silk machine lace. She uses her white lace fichu to...
Notice dated May 21, 1794 offering a reward for the return of a 22 year old slave named, Peter. Peter ran away from Alexander Colden of Coldenham, Ulster County, NY. Colden suspects that Peter is being harbored by a neighbor.
Notice dated February 4, 1807 offering a 20 dollar reward for the return of a 23 year old slave named Peet. Peet ran away from Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston Landing.
Students posing in front of a doorway at the Normal School. The ladies are wearing typical 1895 dresses with large full sleeves. Men are dressed in dark suits.
Bodice of blue silk with white pinstripes and tiny red and green flowers, high collar with lace insert, leg-o-mutton sleeves, tight fitting cuffs with lace inserts; boned.
Bodice with matching waist attachment, pale brown silk; jacket has low V-neckline, full sleeves, blue silk ribbon trim at cuffs and around neckline, buttons down front stays, waist attachment shaped like a bow, attaches to waist over skirt and...
