Tourism Industry: Boarding Houses
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Catskill: Amos Post Incorporated [File One], 1909 - 1946
File — Case MSS Vertical File Drawer Three
Identifier: Folder 87
Scope and Contents
File contains a selection of letters addressed to Amos Post and Amos Post, Inc. concerning business transactions of all types related to cider and vinegar bulk shipment, soda and beverage supply, and automotive sales and service. Of particular note is the number of letters addressed from various boarding houses around Greene County seeking deliveries of carbonated beverages, requests for wells to be dug, and requests to have cars put in order for use by boarders shipping them to Catskill via...
Guest Register of Griffin's Retreat
Item — Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1733
Scope and Contents
Item is a guest register for a small boarding house in Hensonville, Town of Windham for the decade of 1940. Guest names appear with their permanent place of residence. Occasionally arrival and depature dates are given. Of note is the prevalence of visitors from Connecticut in addition to the metropolitan area of New York City.
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,...