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Two pages from Souvenir of the Hudson River , published by Wittmann Brothers. The inscription in the back reads “Bought Sept. 1881 on Steamer Vibbard.” A New York State Library website has some background on the boat: In the first full season of the
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Day Line in 1864 the steamer Chauncey Vibbard was launched and paired with the Daniel Drew to provide regular steamboat service between New York and Albany. Service was offered six days a week, but never on Sunday. As one of the steamboats was
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traveling upriver, the other was traveling downriver. The Day Line claimed its steamboats operated under the “nine hour system.” That is, it took nine hours for the boats to complete the trip between Albany and New York City, with Poughkeepsie as the
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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. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on
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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
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1871 issue of Our Home Journal , published in New Orleans. Link to Google Books . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in
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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
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negatives. The Keystone-Mast Collection represents the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA, which was active from 1892-1963. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on
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Published January 26, 2012 March 30, 2013
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“View down Hudson from Hessian Hills Farm, summer home F.A.P. Gardiner at Croton on Hudson.” Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on
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The wooden work bridge, built across the Croton River near today’s Route 129. The bridge was used to move men and supplies from the docks at Croton Landing up to the New Croton Dam worksite. The buildings along the water were the small workers
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community known as The Bowery. Below is another view of the Bowery, looking north toward the dam, which can be seen in the distance. The label on the card incorrectly refers to the “Quaker Bridge Dam”, which was one of several locations considered
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before the Cornell farm site was chosen. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens
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Card #33 in the Engineering Wonders series of cigarette cards, publishing in the United Kingdom by Will’s Cigarettes. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new
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A photo of the Cortlandt Furnace on Furnace Brook—though by the time this photo was taken it had long since ceased to be used as an iron furnace. Here is an account of the furnace from Robert Bolton’s History of Westchester, published in 1848: “In