🏘️ Croton Local History
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October 2, 1837 and the last entry is dated October 1, 1838. ↩ See Water for Gotham: A History by Gerard T. Koeppe, page 151. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook
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W. Cartwright Published January 22, 2014 January 22, 2014
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Spillway of the New Croton Dam, from the George P. Hall & Son Photograph Collection at the New-York Historical Society. Click the image to enlarge it. This photograph of the nearly completed New Croton Dam gives us a look at the spillway without the
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usual cascade of water. Below are details from the image, showing the immense scale of the structure—made entirely of hand-hewn stone which was cut, moved and placed without the aid of modern construction equipment. The image comes from the George P.
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Hall & Son Photograph Collection at the New-York Historical Society. According to NYHS, “the commercial photography firm . . . operated in Manhattan from 1886 through 1914. Working out of several studios, the firm documented the changing face of New
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York City at the turn of the 20th century. Hall & Son’s photographs were available for general sale, were published in their own calendars and souvenir viewbooks, and appeared as illustrations in such publications as King’s Views of New York ,
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Staley’s Views of New York , and Harper’s Weekly .” This is just one of the many treasures you can find at the New York Heritage Digital Collections website. The ladder in the lower right corner of this detail gives an idea of the immense scale of
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the spillway. Click the image to enlarge it. Click the image to enlarge it. Click the image to enlarge it. 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)
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Photograph Collection New-York Historical Society Published February 8, 2014
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Here’s a tasty bit of Harmon history, currently being offered on eBay. This vintage menu from the Mikado Inn features two Spring Lamb Chops for $1.50, Filet Mignon Mikado for $3.00 and a Porterhouse Steak for two for $5.00. Just between us, I
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recommend the house specialty, Chicken or Beef Sukiyaki , “seasoned with Soyu Sauce served in a chafing dish with rice.” Many thanks to the eBay seller who gave us permission to share this treasure. You can bid on it here . Want to know more about
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what was cooking in the Mikado kitchen? See this previous post . Oscar Levant, the quick-witted pianist, composer, actor, author and quiz-show panelist was there, sharing “sleeping quarters with twenty or thirty Japanese waiters in the cellar.” Click
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Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Mikado Inn speakeasies Published February 17, 2014 August 12, 2014
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Click the image to enlarge it. Here’s a real treat, courtesy of the Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress. Click the image to enlarge it. In 1910 Windsor McKay’s innovative comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland ,
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featured a sequence in which Little Nemo and his companions accidentally land in Sing Sing Prison. After a trip to Mars, Little Nemo, the dwarf Flip and the cannibal Impy fly back to New York in their dirigible spaceship, but they’re intercepted in
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the air by customs agents and decide to land at West Point instead. They fly up the Hudson River—awed by the Palisades—and set down in the Sing Sing Prison by mistake. As usual, in the last panel Little Nemo awakens in the morning in his own bed.
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Click the image to enlarge it. First published by Winsor McCay in October 1905 in The New York Herald , Little Nemo in Slumberland featured a small boy who traveled in his dreams each night to Slumberland, where he had fabulous adventures. The strip
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was notable for its delicate drawings, innovative layouts, fantastic architecture, and brilliant use of color. McKay’s work influenced many artists, most notably Maurice Sendak—whose book In the Night Kitchen was an homage to his favorite comic
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strip. The images shown here are from the original pen-and-ink drawings by McKay. If you want to see what Little Nemo looked like in color check out the Comic Strip Library . Click the image to enlarge it. Share this: Print (Opens in new window)
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Postcard of Quaker Bridge. Click the image to enlarge it. Postcard of Quaker Bridge, circa 1914, published by Frank L. Simone, who issued postcards of many scenes of the Croton area. This card is postmarked Oscawana, July 28, 1914. Here are two other
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Simone cards: View from North Highland Avenue Croton Point Beach 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
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Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Frank L. Simone Post card Quaker Bridge Published June 27, 2014 June 27,
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Cornell Dam, Croton Lake, N.Y. Click the image to enlarge it. Here’s a nice view of the nearly-completed New Croton Dam (also known as the Cornell Dam) circa 1907. We can roughly date the image from the state of construction and the card itself
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because it’s an “undivided back” postcard, issued during the period from 1901 to 1907. Until 1907 only the mailing address could be written on the back of the card. This card was published by William Terhune in “Ossining on Hudson” and printed in
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