Box LOB 54
Container
Contains 6 Collections and/or Records:
Vacation at King's Farm, Surprise, NY
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0001
Scope and Contents
Item is a photographic album of images taken by the Great Aunt of Linda M. Cox while the former was on a vacation at the King Farm in the hamlet of Surprise, New York in 1921. the sixteen-page album contains an average of three snapshots per page showing the family of this individual out and about on the grounds of the King Farm and on a swimming excursion to High Falls just west of Catskill. Each photo has a corresponding caption in white ink on the scrapbook sheet to which the photo is...
Views Around Leeds
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0002
Scope and Contents
Item is a photographic album of views around Leeds, NY showing notable scenery and buildings. Several images are famous views while a number of others eem to be entirely unique to this album. Most of the photographs are decoratively trimmed, and there is a single image per side on each sheet. Handwritten captions in black ink appear beneath many of the pictures describing them. It is probable that this album was a souvenir purchased in the Hamlet, although how common this item was or remains...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
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Views Around Leeds
Parsons Place Photo Album
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0003
Scope and Contents
This album contains photographs of the Parsons Farm in New Baltimore, New York along with images of the surrounding area compiled around 1900 by Dr. Edmund Bronk Southwick, son-in-law of Stephen Parsons. There are approximately ten images per side of each sheet in the album, and all are labled with captions below each image. The sheets of the album are decorated with ink renditions of plants and trees. Subjects featured in the album include the farmhouse and barns of Stephen Parsons, the...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
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Parsons Place Photo Album
Greene County Courthouse and Jail Commemorative Album
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0004
Scope and Contents
Item is a photographic album containing images commemorating the construction of the "new" Greene County Courthouse and Greene County Jail in 1908. Images include photographs of the exterior of the Courthouse, Jail, and Sherrif's Home, as well as photographs of the interior of the Courthouse showing the courtrooms and various offices of county departments. Also included are portraits and group photos of members of the County Board of Supervisors who spearheaded the project and photos of the...
Photographic Album of Lydia Faulkner
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2020.0001
Scope and Contents
Item is a selection of informal snapshots ostensibly of friends and family of Lydia Faulkner in Cairo, New York. Many photos are of a comical nature, and a few contain images of the fronts of a building though it would be difficult to identify it. Also included are some photos of a cat.
Cauterskill School Memento Album
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2021.0001
Scope and Contents
This album comprises three snapshot images and a class roster for the Cauterskill School located on Cauterskill Road in the Town of Catskill beneath the modern New York State Thruway Bridge on Kaaterskill Creek. The inscription in the cover reads "Presented to Fred Fiero by his teacher Clarence Powell, 1902-1903."