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New Baltimore Photo Album by Abbie Lisk Hallock, 1913 - 1921

 Item — Box: LOB 7
Identifier: PA-2021-0001

Scope and Contents

This photo album contains early images by Abbie Lisk prior to and following her marraige to Thomas Hallock, a neighbor from the farm up the road from the Lisk Homestead. Images in this collection cover agricultural activities at the Benjamin Lisk Farm [Woodlawn Farm] showing farm equipment and vehicles, farm animals and livestock, laborers working, and domestic activities. Also included in the album are scenes of trips to Windham, Catskill, New Baltimore Hamlet, Schoharie County, Lake George, Bear Mountain, Poughkeepsie, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Of particular note are scenes on the Lisk Farm showing apple production, barn repair, operations of a portable sawmill, and loading the farm's ice house in the winter.

Dates

  • 1913 - 1921

Extent

150 [approx.] Photographic Prints (Bound Album) : Black leather covers.