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.
This ad for "Croton" and "Senasqua" grapes appeared in the October, 1870 issue of The American Agriculturist. Link to Google Books. This one is from the October, 1842 issue of the same publication. Link to Google Books. This is from the December 1871 issue of Our Home Journal, published in New Orleans. Link to Google … Continue reading Underhill Vineyard Advertising
A photograph of the Croton River, circa 1908, from Clifton Johnson's book The Picturesque Hudson, Macmillan Company, 1909.
A Roaring Twenties dame waves to Henry Hudson on the cover of this 1927 issue of Westchester County Fair which seems to have been a suburban knock-off of the New Yorker.
This photo shows the Albany Post Road milestone, located at the intersection of Albany Post Road and the southern entrance ramp to Route 9 (where Hilltop Farm is today). It is unlikely that this is the original location of the marker. For a map showing the locations of the markers, see this post.
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.
Detail from William Wade’s 1845 Panorama of the Hudson River. Courtesy of the Westchester Historical Society.
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
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