A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
The front cover of Mary Isabella Forsyth's book titled "Beginnings of New York: Kingston the first state capital". There is a drawing of a vessel on a body of water.
Postcard showing a steamer on the Hudson River, NY at night. Smoke billows from the vessel and the steamer is completely lit up. Possibly one of the Iron Steamboat Coaches.
Stony Point Lighthouse, the oldest on the Hudson, marked the entrance to the Hudson Highlands for nearly a hundred years and was built in 1826, the result of a contract between Thomas Phillips, of New York City, and Jonathan Thompson,...
Stony Point Lighthouse, the oldest on the Hudson, marked the entrance to the Hudson Highlands for nearly a hundred years and was built in 1826, the result of a contract between Thomas Phillips, of New York City, and Jonathan Thompson,...
This image was hand-colored. Stony Point Lighthouse, the oldest on the Hudson, marked the entrance to the Hudson Highlands for nearly a hundred years and was built in 1826, the result of a contract between Thomas Phillips, of New York City, and...
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...
