Abbie Lisk Hallock Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2021.0013

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises eight photographic albums and miscellaneous personal materials of Abbie Lisk Hallock of New Baltimore, New York. Of note are numerous images taken around Greene County and New Baltimore from roughly 1914 through 1966 showing Woodlawn Farm (the Benjamin Lisk Homestead), the farm's livestock and cultivated crops, farm implements and machinery in use, and scenes in Abbie Lisk Hallock's daily life there. Also included are images related to Echo Grange of New Baltimore, the Cairo Fair/Greene County Fair, family vacations, and special events.

Dates

1913 - 1971

Biographical / Historical

Abbie Lisk Hallock [1892-1981] was a daughter of Charles J. Lisk [1859-1936] and Jennie Garrett Lisk [1862-1953] who was raised on the farm of her paternal grandfather Benjamin C. Lisk in New Baltimore, New York. Woodlawn Farm was built up into a profitable commercial venture by Benjamin Lisk from a tract of land originally purchased by his father Charles Lisk. Crowned by a modified three-bay barn built in 1853 and an italianate farmhouse from 1868, the campus was devoted for much of its existence to commercial apple production. A full analysis of the Lisk barn and the operations of the farm can be found in an article by Ted Hilscher published in Volume 22, no. 2 of the Greene County Historical Journal in 1998.

Abbie Lisk Hallock married Thomas Hallock, who lived on a neighboring farm, and they made their home at Woodlawn living with her parents following their marriage. Thomas became a partner with Abbie's father in the operations of the farm, and Abbie seems to have blossomed as a hobbyist photographer (in addition to her own work on the farm and homestead) in the years following her and Thomas' marriage. During Thomas and Abbie's ownership the farm operations were expanded to include egg production, and in their retirement they sold Woodlawn to move across the street to a home Thomas and his brother Cecil constructed. Abbie Lisk Hallock passed in 1981, and the photographic albums containing her work were retained by her nephew Robert Hallock prior to their doantion to the Greene County Historical Society.

Extent

1.3 Cubic Feet (One legal size document container, one photo binder box, two oversize boxes.) : Photographic prints and handwritten materials

Additional Description

Arrangement

Albums are identified as unique items and boxed by size, loose images are boxed in sleeves in Photo Box 36, and all other papers and miscellany are boxed as a miscellaneous series in MSS Box 173.