Looking towards the Congers Elementary School, it is a two-story white building with a bell tower on top. Someone has typed a message over the top of this handcolored picture. "Though you might like this for the library scrap book. It is a...
Postcards; Military academies; Military facilities; Cannons; Steamboats;
Several different size cannon barrels mounted on cement bases. The Hudson River can be seen in the background on the right. Trophy Point has long been recognized as a strategically important location on the Hudson River, this spot has long been...
Buildings; Fire stations; Gables; Towers; Fund raising;
This is the Pearl River Hook & Ladder Building located on Central Avenue. This building replaced the old two story structure on the same site which had burned down on October 2, 1906. This gabled building was opened on June 1, 1908, and destroyed...
Photographs; Portrait photographs; Military officers;
A middle age Union Infantry officer. He is dressed in his dress uniform, which is a double-breasted frock coat. You can tell that he is an Civil War officer because of the three smaller buttons on the cuff of of his sleeve, unlisted men only had...
Text at the bottom of the picture: Do you recognize these men? They are connected with the Haverstraw Baseball Club in the year 1913, when the game was a popular sport and drew large crowds. The men in the picture, left to right, are...
Photographs; Clippings; Stables; City & town life;
Two photographs, clipped from a newspaper. The top photograph is of the livery stable on Orange Avenue, before 1900. The text under the photograph reads: This livery stable stood on Orange Avenue, Suffern, next to the Eureka House and was run by...
Photographs; Business enterprises; Stores & shops;
Several businesses on Comesky Corner. Pava's Liquors, Lafayette Stationary; Just For You and several other businesses. There are street signs in the front right for Rt. 59, 202, and the NY State Thruway.
Weight loss; Vacations; Postcards; Health resorts;
This image shows the back and front of a postcard of the Nanuet Milk Farm. Caption on the front of the postcard identifies this as The Nanuet Milk Farm, Nanuet N.Y. Printed on the reverse of the postcard is the information, 'A Restful Spot The...
Schools; Dirt roads; Horses; Carts & wagons; Stone walls;
This is a view up the tree-lined dirt road in front of the Tomkins Cove Grammar School. The school building is seen on the left-side of the picture. There is a low stone wall in front of the property and the building is covered in ivy. A horse and...
In this photograph, children are seated in three rows at their desks posed for the picture. This is a first and second grade classroom. One student, a boy, and the teacher stand at the back of the room. A banner with "T.C.U.S" is on the back wall...
This is a close-up photograph of a cross-gabled building with vented cupola covered in ivy. There is a covered entrance at the corner of the building where the two sections form an 'L'. There is a flagpole in front of the property and a stone wall...
This is a photograph of thirteen people posed in an open doorway for the portrait. The people in the photograph are of varying ages, but they are all young adults. The girls are all in long dresses. Only one boy is fully visible and he is wearing...
On the right side of this postcard is the portrait of a young girl in formal attire. On the left side of the postcard there is a illustrated purple and orange flag. There is text on the postcard which reads, "Are You Truly Coming to Tomkins Cove,...
Postcards; Correspondence; Taverns (Inns); Gables; Dormers; Porches; Fire escapes; People;
This postcard is of the large, three-story, side-gabled house that is the Eyrie Inn. There is a dormer window visible on the roof as well as an additional gable in the center of the house. The house has a large, wide staircase leading up to the...
The front of this postcard show a large bare Walnut tree in an otherwise almost empty field. There is a much smaller tree located to the right of this tree and a fence runs through the length of the field. Low mountains rise in the far background....
This is a postcard depicting a small wooden Protestant church located on an open, flat property at the base of a small mountain. The church is front-gabled with a cupola at the front, center of the roof. There are a few small, wide wooden stairs...
This is a colorized postcard looking down the multi-track line that is the West Shore Railroad at the West Haverstraw Station. A steam train is on the tracks in front of the station. On the left side of the tracks is the railroad station house....
Business districts; Awnings; People; Lampposts; Bricks;
This colorized postcard offers a view down Broadway, Haverstraw. On the left side of the street, there are rows of two-story buildings primarily constructed of brick. At the street level, the buildings offer storefront shopping. Many of these...
This is a colorized postcard of the one-story hip-roofed railroad station. There is a single gabled dormer in the center of the roof and support brackets run at regular intervals from the roof-line to the side of the building. The railroad track...
