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The Village of Tuxedo Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. This collection includes reproductions of the original Building-Structure Inventory Forms, which list location, photographs, historical significance and owners of the property in 1977, when the Inventory Forms were compiled. These images are scans of poor quality photocopies.
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This collection includes historic postcards depicting landmarks, street scenes, and scenery in and around Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
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This collection includes historic photographs of people, places, and events in Tuxedo Park.
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The area around Tupper Lake was first settled in 1844, and since very soon thereafter it has served as a major lumber producer in New York State.
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This collection of photographs shows a wide variety of persons, natural landmarks, buildings, and other images of Tupper Lake and the surrounding area, dating between 1889 and 1997. Included in this collection are many images showing the logging industry, including horse drawn sleds, trees being felled, lumber camps, lumber mills, and Lumberjacks. Local landmarks such as hospitals, churches, railroad stations, and hotels are included.
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The Mountain Echo, the Tuhisean, and the Lumberjack are all names which the Tupper Lake High School Yearbook has used.
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This collection contains issues of the Tupper Lake High School yearbooks, as well as commencement programs and senior annuals, published between 1917 and 2002.
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The Hudson River was the great natural highway into the interior of New York State for centuries. Transportation for people and goods was by boat for over two hundred years after the arrival of European, mostly Dutch, settlers in the early 17th century.
Steamboats came on the scene gradually after 1807 carrying mostly passengers for many decades. Eventually steam towboats pulling multiple barges and canal boats took over the freight traffic on the Hudson. The Cornell Steamboat Company of Rondout became the largest towing company on the Hudson by the 1880s because of the enormous amount of freight to be transported to New York City from the Hudson Valley, especially from Rondout. Towboats and tugs pulling long strings of barges could be seen day and night on the Hudson from the 1850s through the 1930s. The Cornell Steamboat Company had a virtual monopoly on towing on the river from the 1880s through the 1930s. The company had a fleet of up to sixty tugboats of all sizes at one time.
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This collection contains photographs of Cornell Steamboat Company tug and towboats on the Rondout Creek and the Hudson River.
For more information and images, visit the online exhibition Tugboats: Workhorses of the Hudson.
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Truman E. Pomeroy Jr. (b. 1840 – d. 1894-02-05) was born in Margaretta, Ohio to Truman Pomeroy Sr. and Martha Whiting Reed. He attended college in Adrian, Michigan in 1860 enlisting in the 1st Michigan Infantry, Company K, when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Captured at the first battle of Manassas and returned in a prisoner exchange, Pomeroy re-enlisted, first into the 18th Michigan infantry, company C (alongside his future cousin-in-law Elvero Persons, who also appears in this collection) and later into the 12th Tennessee Cavalry, seeing further action at the battles of Franklin and Nashville. In 1869, he married Mary C. Opdycke, with whom he had three children: Gertrude (b. 1870-06-16), Catherine (b. 1874-09-17 - d. 1898-05-05), and Daisy (b. 1878-01-07, d. 1956-05). Pomeroy worked as a miller, a farmer, and sometimes as a teamster in Norwalk and Milan, Ohio until his death in 1894.
The Truman E. Pomeroy Jr. family held strong ties to New York State, especially the western counties. Truman Pomeroy Sr. resided in Monroe County as a young man and later served as Town Clerk for Hartland, Niagara County, NY before emigrating to Ohio.
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This Collection contains portraits of multiple generations of the Pomeroy family, as well as many members of secondary lines, including the Opdycke, Reed, Persons, Norway, and McIntire families, who are well represented. Places of residence include New York, California, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Missouri. The Persons and McIntire families, both relatives of the Reeds, resided in Monroe and Wayne Counties, New York. Almost every individual in this collection is listed in the APHGA’s family tree database (link available in the description) where a detailed record of their life and genealogy is available.
The Truman Pomeroy Family Photograph collection consists of 46 card photographs of the extended family of Truman E. Pomeroy Jr., all dating from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. These commercial portraits are cartes-de-visite or larger cabinet cards, both popular formats for family and individual portraits in the latter half of the 19th century. The former in particular became widespread at the beginning of the American Civil War, and were popular gifts to and from soldiers serving away from their homes and families. Most items in this collection have the name and address of the studio in which they were taken printed on the reverse side.
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The Troy Public Library Postcard Collection consists primarily of postcards with views of Troy, N.Y., although other surrounding areas are represented as well. The provenance of the bulk of the collection is unknown. It appears many of the cards have been collected over the years, and the collection continues to be added to.
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Directories of the residents of Delmar, Elsmere, and Slingerlands, New York. The directories list people over the age of 18 living in these three villages. People are listed alphabetically, with married women listed with their husbands. The listings also include occupation, place of occupation, place of residence, and post office.
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Kathie J. Meredith reported on the residents of and visitors to the Finger Lakes during her 40-year career as a regional editor, writer and photographer at the Daily Messenger newspaper in Canandaigua, New York. She attended Franklin College in Indiana as an undergraduate and received her Master’s degree in journalism from West Virginia University. From her debut at the paper in 1968, Meredith focused her interest on people, covering significant issues facing everyday citizens. A perfect fit at a locally-owned newspaper devoted to bringing community news to community people, Meredith served her community for four decades by hearing and sharing their stories.
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“Trackside Stories” features a selection of 30 motorsports photographs by photojournalist Kathie J. Meredith. Meredith covered races at her local track, Watkins Glen International, during the most exciting era in the circuit’s history, when it hosted major national racing events as well as top-level international races in the prestigious Formula One series. Her photographs tell a myriad of stories found trackside - of fans, track workers, and internationally-famous racecar drivers. Meredith’s portraits capture the world’s top racers in the cockpit, pit row and victory lane. The photographs also depict fans enjoying the races; the work of mechanics, timers and safety workers; and the beauty and design of racecars. The images celebrate an era when this remote, rural community in the Finger Lakes hosted the most competitive series, the fastest racecars, the most talented international drivers, and fans from all over the globe. The digital collection also includes portraits of the photographer.