Del Howard's moment of fame came when he helped push a cow across Main Street. Someone is pulling; there's a rope around the horns. This is Nyack's most famous photographic image.
Miss Eleanor Armes' School was on Broadway in South Nyack. In this 1895 photograph, the teacher poses with her young students on the porch of the house. Someone numbered the individuals, providing a key to the names on the back. See notes below....
The multi-storied Gardener's Cottage on the Moorings Estate resembles a large chalet.This part of the Clarkstown Country Club was alongside the Hudson River.
A man and a young girl stand in front of a saltbox house and a road. The yard and the road are flooded. Telephone poles and other buildings are in the background. Could this be the flood caused by the unusual storms of October 1903?
The lowest story of this three-story residence is brick; the upper stories are frame. Perhaps the kitchen was in the bottom layer. A woman in a long black dress stands by the stairway leading to the middle floor. The windows are shuttered and there...
Old dark shade trees line both sides of Sickles Avenue in Nyack. The avenue is dirt and there are wheel tracks in the mud. Someone has pasted three little magazine pictures around the outside, of Crumbie's Glen, St. Paul's Methodist Church, and St....
For many years, residents of Nyack tried to preserve the Tappan Zee Playhouse. At one point, this included reshingling the roof. Someone took a photo from above, of the rib beams that support the roof itself.
In the midst of construction, someone created this image of the original stone wall of the 1903 Nyack Library building joining the steel I-beams of the multi-storied 1993 addition.
Along Piermont Avenue in Piermont there is an old spring, which was a water source for residents and a beacon for travelers. Someone wrote a poem and erected it above the opening. This old postcard shows a trough to the right of the spring.
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
On September 26, 1987 the Nyack Library sponsored a tribute to the writer and South Nyack resident, Carson McCullers. Several actors and actresses with ties to McCullers' works were in the performance, which was at St. Paul's Methodist Church....
This view of Rockland Lake was shot from the west side. The road in the front is Route 9W. The Hicks ice houses are seen in the distance on the right. Little can be seen of the village because of the trees on the hillsides. There's no explanation...
