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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…
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card to 1939. 1 For a guide to dating Curt Teich cards, see here . ↩ 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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Fish and why was his visit photographed? Why were the photos laboriously labelled on the negatives when a simple inscription on the back of the print or on a scrapbook page would have sufficed? 2 We don’t know. We…
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readable when the images were printed the labels needed to be written or applied in reverse—a tricky thing to do in a darkroom—which is why some of the letters are incorrectly reversed on the prints. Because the text…
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Each has a penned inscription on the back and is stamped with the month and year. The photographs were recently acquired at an estate sale in Cortlandt along with other images of Peekskill, Bear Mountain Bridge, Camp Smith and more…
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…SING SING KILL BRIDGE 1842 Plate 20-8, Old Croton Aqueduct Type SODOM DAM 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign SODOM RESERVOIR 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Vertical…
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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…
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…was easy for workers—given the labor conditions around the dam—to fall into a pattern of subservience to, and dependence on, the “padrones”, bosses who exercised a form of control upon the men. Italian workers’ community with New Croton
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City . . . [and] then moved to a rural community in upstate New York, a transition that her diaries describe as a difficult one.” Sing.Sing. Friday. August. 13. teenth. 1841. A beautifull day, the sun obscured, and a cool breeze blowing…
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…The New Croton Dam, spring 1910. The New Croton Dam spillway, spring 1910. Rare photo
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They lived in a number of small communities in and around the work site and in boarding houses located in the village of Croton Landing. At the foot of the dam, contractors had erected an office, commissary, clinic, and engine…
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…Soldiers of the New York National Guard Seventh Regiment on Grand Street in Croton, 1900. The connecting bridge on top of the new dam ran into budget restraints so the design was changed a few times. Original plans called for…
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…One of numerous designs for a connecting bridge on the New Croton Dam. Another plan featured a curved framework, a third was highlighted by a single reinforced span, and a fourth, featuring a steel arch,
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…Trowels with the inscription “Used for laying of last stone, New Croton Dam, January 17, 1906” were given to New York City in 1948 by Reverend Constantino Cassaneti, pastor at the
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accepted the New Croton Dam on behalf of the metropolis, drew from his pocket a genuine shamrock which he had brought from Ireland, and cast it beneath the stone. This was quickly followed by a shower of coins from the…
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…The work of building the greatest dam in the world was completed. Herman Metz brought from Croton to
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those images in the coming weeks. If you’re a Crotonite, don’t miss the last image of the ice-covered rocks along Route 129. Looks familiar, doesn’t it? The Bagley family stopped their car to take the photo…
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…injury to our works, the freshet has left remaining no bridge
" In addition to the above
over the Croton River on its whole length, either above or below the dam. " There were three
bridges below, one called Tompkins' Bridge, valued…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…The Croton Lake is by far the most extensive sheet of water in the county. It is formed by a dam about
five miles east of the mouth of the Croton, and has an ordinary length
of some three and…
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flocking to see the procession. The stores were closed, bells ringing, soldiers marching, societys forming, and every one putting on their best faces to witness the novel scene. At eleven Garret, the children, Bridget and myself went up to Mrs
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam .
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…Introduction 1911 Additional Putnam County dams completed (Croton Falls Diverting Dam and Reservoir, Croton Falls Hemlock Dam and Reservoir) 1984 1981 135th Street Gatehouse designated a NYC Landmark 1983 135th Street Gatehouse placed on National Register of Historic Places 1965…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…