HISTORY & MYSTERIES
This beautiful photograph (circa 1908) is from the Keystone-Mast Collection at the California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. The museum maintains the world's largest collection of original stereoscopic prints and negatives. The Keystone-Mast Collection represents the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA, which was active from 1892-1963.
A beautiful hand-colored post card of the New Croton Dam (aka the Cornell Dam) which, despite what the card says, is nowhere near Mt. Kisco.
These engravings from the June 20, 1891 issue of Scientific American show before and after views of the Croton River, when the New Croton Dam was in the planning stages. The view is looking east, with Quaker Bridge (at that time a covered bridge) in the lower right. The tributary in the foreground going to … Continue reading Croton River Valley, Before & After
In April 1925, Clarence White, one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession movement, took a group of students to photograph at Croton Dam. The series of images he made incorporate the soft, diffused light of Pictorialism with the modern, abstract vision that interested him in his later compositions. He compiled his work from that … Continue reading Croton Dam photographs by Clarence White
William Rickarby Miller (1818–1893) Boating on the Old Croton Reservoir, NY watercolor on paper 15 x 21 inches (sight size) signed and dated 1851, lower right
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