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[Album of photographs of New York State and other locations]

Title
[Album of photographs of New York State and other locations] [graphic].
Publication
ca. 1898.

Details

Description
1 album (105 photographic prints); 19 x 27 cm.
Summary
  • Album with photographs depicting home and travels of unidentified person or family, including interior views of "Our library," and a home and school in Coxsackie identified as haunts of compiler in 1840. Views in New York State: homes in Woodsburgh and Mount Vernon, owners identified; street in Mount Vernon; Lake Massawepie: Hotel Childwold and views of lake, Raquette River bridge, Catamount and Round Ponds; Lake Placid, including views of lake, people in boat, Whiteface Mountain and Inn, woman and "our dog"; Lower Saranac Lake; Brooklyn: Atlantic Yacht Club, Coney Island; statues of Alexander Hamilton and Henry Ward Beecher; views of a parade of military personnel (Spanish American War?), Oct. 1, 1898; home in Freehold New Jersey; Gettysburg: views of monuments, statues, hotels and of the battlefield; California and Oregon: home in L.A., beach at Santa Monica, Hotel Del Monte Grounds, ostriches on Coronado beach, San Diego, Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Mountains, Rogue River Valley; views in Yellowstone National Park.
  • Views in Canada: Central Pacific Railroad Bridge, St. Lawrence River; on the Batiscam River; among the Thousand Islands; Monmorenci Falls; Wolfe-Montcalm monument and Montcalm headquarters, Quebec; Plains of Abraham and Wolfe monument; Ha Ha Bay and Cape Trinity, Saquenay River; old and new churches in Tadousac, at the mouth of the Saquenay; residences in Bear River, Nova Scotia; group picnicking on the St. Johns River, New Brunswick; house called "Shoreacres" on the Kennebecasis, Gondola Point, N.B.; Bow River, Banff, and the Rocky Mountains.
Subject
  • Battlefields > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
  • Dwellings > Canada
  • Dwellings > New Jersey > Freehold
  • Dwellings > New York
  • Hotels > New York (State)
  • Interior architecture > New York
  • Lakes > New York
  • Monuments & memorials > New York > New York
  • Monuments & memorials > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
  • Monuments & memorials > Quebec
  • Mountains > California
  • Ostriches > California
  • Parades & processions > New York (State) > New York
  • Railroad bridges > Canada
  • Rivers > Canada
  • Schools > New York > Coxsackie
  • Spanish-American War, 1898 > Anniversaries, etc > New York (State) > New York
  • Warships > United States
  • Waterfalls > Quebec
  • Yacht clubs > New York (State) > New York
  • Banff (Alta.)
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • California
  • New Brunswick
  • Nova Scotia
  • United States > History > Monuments. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Yellowstone National Park
Genre/Form
  • Albums.
  • Snapshots.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin prints.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Amateur silver gelatin prints, many somewhat faded, mounted on light board that is tabbed into post-bound album with "Photographs" in gold on cover.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Provenance (note)
  • Gift of Mervyn H. Sterne Library, University of Alabama Birmingham, 1985.
Call Number
MFY 94-377
OCLC
NYPG94-F198
Title
[Album of photographs of New York State and other locations] [graphic].
Imprint
ca. 1898.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Provenance
Gift of Mervyn H. Sterne Library, University of Alabama Birmingham, 1985.
Research Call Number
MFY 94-377
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