New York State Education Department Division of Archives and History Historic Preservation Photographs
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of historic preservation photographs assembled by the New York State Division of Archives and History,
evidently for the purpose of using them in a publication. The photographs depict public buildings, cultural institutions,
state parks, bridges, schools, businesses, urban areas, and geographic features like rivers, mountains, and waterfalls. The
photographs cover the following geographic regions of New York State: Long Island, New York City, Upstate New York, Albany,
Adirondacks, Finger Lakes, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls.
Creator:
Title:
Education Department Division of Archives and History historic preservation photographs
Quantity:
circa 1940
Series Number:
A0097
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of historic preservation photographs assembled by the New York State Division of Archives and History,
evidently for the purpose of using them in a publication. The photographs depict public buildings, cultural institutions,
state parks, bridges, schools, businesses, urban areas, and geographic features like rivers, mountains, and waterfalls (including
Niagara Falls). In addition, the images show workers engaged in such activities as fishing, farming, and industry.
Among the industries documented by the records are steel and iron, rubber, aircraft, camera and film, optics, glass, electrical
installation, printing and publishing, cement, sauerkraut, paint, carpet, wallpaper and color, oil, art metal, and musical
instruments. The photographs cover the following geographic regions of New York State, as defined by the Division of Archives
and History: Long Island, New York City, Upstate New York, Albany, Adirondacks, Finger Lakes, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls.
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Historic preservation photographs, circa 1940
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Detailed Description
| Contents |
Box |
Folder |
Accretion: A0097-78 |
| Long Island: Grave of Theodore Roosevelt, Cove Neck |
1 |
1 |
| Long Island: Deep Sea Fishing |
1 |
2 |
| Long Island: The Atlantic Breaks on Long Island Shore |
1 |
3 |
| Long Island: Montauk Point Lighthouse (1 of 2) |
1 |
4 |
| Long Island: Montauk Point Lighthouse (2 of 2) |
1 |
5 |
| Long Island: Jones Beach State Park (1 of 2) |
1 |
6 |
| Long Island: Jones Beach State Park (2 of 2) |
1 |
7 |
| Long Island: John Howard Payne House, East Hampton |
1 |
8 |
| New York City: Mural, Mamaroneck Library |
1 |
9 |
| New York City: George Wright Municipal Golf Course |
1 |
10 |
| New York City: Museum of Modern Art |
1 |
11 |
| New York City: Museum of Modern Art (New Building) |
1 |
12 |
| New York City: Italian Mother and Child at Ellis Island (photo by Louis Hine) |
1 |
13 |
| New York City: Fifth Avenue |
1 |
14 |
| New York City: Park Avenue with Grand Central Station |
1 |
15 |
| Upstate New York: Central Quarters Museum, New York State Historical Society, Cooperstown, N.Y. |
1 |
16 |
| Upstate New York: Grand Gorge, Source of Delaware River |
1 |
17 |
| Upstate New York: Catskill Winter Scene |
1 |
18 |
| Upstate New York: Aerial View of Thousand Islands (1 of 2) |
1 |
19 |
| Upstate New York: Aerial View of Thousand Islands (2 of 2) |
1 |
20 |
| Upstate New York: State Forest Tree Nursery |
1 |
21 |
| Upstate New York: Union College, Schenectady |
1 |
22 |
| Upstate New York: Genesee River Gorge, Letchworth State Park |
1 |
23 |
| Upstate New York: Chemung River from Waverly Hill |
1 |
24 |
| Upstate New York: Chemung River from Waverly River |
1 |
25 |
| Upstate New York: Old Stone Fort Schoharie |
1 |
26 |
| Upstate New York: Unfurling the Stars and Stripes on August 3, 1777 at Fort Stanwix (reproduction) |
1 |
27 |
| Upstate New York: Sawmill near East Arlington (reproduction) |
1 |
28 |
| Upstate New York: View of Italy Hill, near Canandaigua, N.Y. |
1 |
29 |
| Upstate New York: Aerial View of Court Street, Broad Street, and Main Street bridges, Rochester, N.Y. |
1 |
30 |
| Upstate New York: Main Street, Bath |
1 |
31 |
| Upstate New York: Chuctanunda Creek, Amsterdam, N.Y. |
1 |
32 |
| Albany: Temporary Capitol, Albany (reproduction) |
1 |
33 |
| Albany: Grain Elevator, Port of Authority |
1 |
34 |
| Adirondacks: Civic Monument, Ticonderoga |
1 |
35 |
| Adirondacks: The Gothics from Saddleback Mountain |
1 |
36 |
| Adirondacks: Mount Marcy |
1 |
37 |
| Adirondacks: Unidentified Winter Scene |
1 |
38 |
| Adirondacks: North Creek Railroad Station |
1 |
39 |
| Adirondacks: Raccoon |
1 |
40 |
| Adirondacks: On the Spot News |
1 |
41 |
| Adirondacks: Unidentified Skier |
1 |
42 |
| Adirondacks: Hydro Electric Dam, Spier Dam |
1 |
43 |
| Adirondacks: Whiteface Memorial Highway |
1 |
44 |
| Adirondacks: Observatory, Whiteface Mountain |
1 |
45 |
| Adirondacks: Mount Whiteface and Cobble Mountain |
1 |
46 |
| Adirondacks: Ausable Chasm |
1 |
47 |
| Adirondacks: Ausable River and Whiteface Mountain near Wilmington |
1 |
48 |
| Finger Lakes: Spring in Dorset Hollow (reproduction) |
1 |
49 |
| Finger Lakes: Cavern Cascade, Watkins Glen |
1 |
50 |
| Finger Lakes: Up the Mohawk Valley |
1 |
51 |
| Finger Lakes: In the Finger Lake Country |
1 |
52 |
| Buffalo: Grain Shovelers, Buffalo Harbor |
1 |
53 |
| Buffalo: A Barge Boat |
1 |
54 |
| Buffalo: Buffalo City Hall by Night |
1 |
55 |
| Buffalo: Buffalo City Hall and McKinley Monument |
1 |
56 |
| Buffalo: Albright Art Galley |
1 |
57 |
| Buffalo: Baker Homes Housing Project |
1 |
58 |
| Buffalo: Gasoline Refinery and Storage |
1 |
59 |
| Buffalo: Buffalo Harbor (1 of 2) |
1 |
60 |
| Buffalo: Buffalo Harbor (2 of 2) |
1 |
61 |
| Buffalo: International Milling Company, Flour Mill Elevator and Office |
1 |
62 |
| Buffalo: Grain Elevator (coated with Aluminum Paint) |
1 |
63 |
| Buffalo: Great Lakes Steamer, Port of Buffalo |
1 |
64 |
| Buffalo: State Grain Elevator, Oswego |
1 |
65 |
| Buffalo: Peace Bridge |
1 |
66 |
| Buffalo: Inner Harbor |
1 |
67 |
| Niagara Falls: Gorge at Niagara River |
1 |
68 |
| Niagara Falls: American Falls from Goat Island |
1 |
69 |
| Niagara Falls: Aerial View of Niagara Falls |
1 |
70 |
| Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls in Winter Dress |
1 |
71 |
| Niagara Falls: American Falls from Below |
1 |
72 |
| Niagara Falls: Canadian Falls from Maid of Mist Boat |
1 |
73 |
| Niagara Falls: Canadian Falls from Below |
1 |
74 |
| Niagara Falls: Canadian Falls with Canada |
1 |
75 |
| Niagara Falls: American and Canadian Falls (1 of 2) |
1 |
76 |
| Niagara Falls: American and Canadian Falls (2 of 2) |
1 |
77 |
| Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls |
1 |
78 |
| Niagara Falls: The Whirlpool, Niagara Falls |
1 |
79 |
| Niagara Falls: Fort Niagara, Mouth of Niagara River |
1 |
80 |
| Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls |
1 |
81 |
| Niagara Falls: Fort Niagara, 1814 (reproduction) |
1 |
82 |
| Agriculture: Making Alfalfa Hay, Cayuga County |
1 |
83 |
| Agriculture: Dairy Farmstead, Delaware County |
1 |
84 |
| Agriculture: Roadside Stand |
1 |
85 |
| Agriculture: Strip Cropping on Calkins Farm, Steuben County |
1 |
86 |
| Agriculture: Apple Grader and Washer on Large Fruit Farm |
1 |
87 |
| Agriculture: Maple Sugar Manufacturing, Schoharie County |
1 |
88 |
| Agriculture: Farm Home |
1 |
89 |
| Agriculture: Alfalfa Harvest |
1 |
90 |
| Agriculture: Crowning Apple Blossom Queen, Ulster County |
1 |
91 |
| Agriculture: NYA Youth adjusting the milking machine, Cobleskill Resident Training Center for Boys |
1 |
92 |
| Agriculture: 500 Gallon Vats, General Ice Cream Corporation |
1 |
93 |
| Agriculture: County Agent Weighing Milk |
1 |
94 |
| Agriculture: Near Sprakers Basin, Mohawk Valley |
1 |
95 |
| Agriculture: Dairy Herd, Tompkins County |
1 |
96 |
| Agriculture: Haying storing in Barn, Broadmeadow Farm, Spaulding, N.Y. |
1 |
97 |
| Education: Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University |
1 |
98 |
| Education: Library Tower, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
1 |
99 |
| Education: Aerial View of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. |
1 |
100 |
| Education: The Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
1 |
101 |
| Education: Taylor Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
1 |
102 |
| Education: Rural School (typical scene) |
1 |
103 |
| Education: Central School (typical scene-replaced rural school) |
1 |
104 |
| Education: Central School Classroom (typical scene) |
1 |
105 |
| Education: Howe Caverns |
1 |
106 |
| Education: Saratoga Springs Nursery School |
1 |
107 |
| Education: West Point Chapel |
1 |
108 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Making Rails, Bethlehem Steel Company |
2 |
1 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Making Rails, Bethlehem Steel Company |
2 |
2 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Rolling Aluminum, Massena |
2 |
3 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Witherbee-Sherman Iron Company, Port Henry, N.Y. |
2 |
4 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Wire Rolling Machinery-Wickwire-Spencer Steel Company |
2 |
5 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Pouring Molten Steel-Wickwire-Spencer Steel Company |
2 |
6 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Stripping molds from steel ingots-Bethlehem Steel Company |
2 |
7 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Limestone Unloader-Bethlehem Steel Company |
2 |
8 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Coke Ovens, Bethlehem Steel Company, Lackawanna, N.Y. |
2 |
9 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Open Hearth Charging Floor-Bethlehem Steel Company, Lackawanna, N.Y. |
2 |
10 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Charging Side Open Hearth, Bethlehem Steel Company, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
11 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Blast Furnace-Bethlehem Steel Co., Lackawanna, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
12 |
| Industry: Steel and Iron Industry-Blast Furnace-Bethlehem Steel Company, Lackawanna, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
13 |
| Industry: Rubber Industry-Calendering-Hewlett Rubber Company, Buffalo, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
14 |
| Industry: Rubber Industry-Calendering-Hewlett Rubber Company, Buffalo, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
15 |
| Industry: Rubber Industry-Hewlett Rubber Company, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
16 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-New Milling Machine-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
17 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Making Parts-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
18 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Making Parts-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
19 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Lathe Section-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo N.Y. |
2 |
20 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
21 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Testing Parts-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
22 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Making Parts-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
23 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Wing Inspection-Bell Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
24 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Installing Oil Tank and Engine-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
25 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Working on CW-20 Transport-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
26 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Working on CW-20 Transport-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
27 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-P40-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
28 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-New Pursuit Plane-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
29 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-P36 Single Place Pursuit-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
30 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Factory-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
31 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Installing Landing Gear-Curtiss Pursuit-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
32 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-P40 Pursuits Production Line-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
33 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Curtiss Dive Bombers-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
34 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Making Parts-Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
35 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Republic XP-47B Thunderbolt-Republic Aviation Corporation, Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. |
2 |
36 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Assembly Leadman-Republic Aviation Corporation, Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. |
2 |
37 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Plane Ammunition |
2 |
38 |
| Industry: Aircraft Industry-Pneumatic Riveting-Burgard Vocational High School, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
39 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Paper-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
40 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Silver Salts-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
41 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Paper-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
42 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Paper-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (2 of 4) |
2 |
43 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Paper-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (3 of 4) |
2 |
44 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Paper-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (4 of 4) |
2 |
45 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Film-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
46 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Inspecting Film-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
47 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Movie Film-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
48 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Testing Movie Film-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
49 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Lenses-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
50 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Lenses-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
51 |
| Industry: Camera and Film Industry-Making Optical Glass-Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
52 |
| Industry: Optical Industry-Studying Metals-Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y. |
2 |
53 |
| Industry: Optical Industry-Making Optical Glass-Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
54 |
| Industry: Optical Industry-Making Optical Glass-Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
55 |
| Industry: Optical Industry-Inspecting Optical Glass-Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y. (1 of 2) |
2 |
56 |
| Industry: Optical Industry-Inspecting Optical Glass-Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y. (2 of 2) |
2 |
57 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Making Glass Lined Milk Tank-Pfaudler Company, Rochester, N.Y. (1 of 3) |
2 |
58 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Making Glass Lined Milk Tank-Pfaudler Company, Rochester, N.Y. (2 of 3) |
2 |
59 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Making Glass Lined Milk Tank-Pfaudler Company, Rochester, N.Y. (3 of 3) |
2 |
60 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Raw Materials-Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y. |
2 |
61 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Blowing Glass-Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y. |
2 |
62 |
| Industry: Glass Industry-Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y. |
2 |
63 |
| Industry: Electrical Installation Industry-Mica Insulator Company, Schenectady, N.Y. (1 of 4) |
2 |
64 |
| Industry: Electrical Installation Industry-Mica Insulator Company, Schenectady, N.Y. (2 of 4) |
2 |
65 |
| Industry: Electrical Installation Industry-Mica Insulator Company, Schenectady, N.Y. (3 of 4) |
2 |
66 |
| Industry: Electrical Installation Industry-Mica Insulator Company, Schenectady, N.Y. (4 of 4) |
2 |
67 |
| Industry: Printing and Publishing Industry-High Speed Magazine Press-J.B. Lyon Company |
2 |
68 |
| Industry: Printing and Publishing Industry-J.B. Lyon Company |
2 |
69 |
| Industry: Electrical Industry-G.E. Steam Turbine, General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y. |
2 |
70 |
| Industry: Electrical Industry-G.E. D-C, Motors-General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y. |
2 |
71 |
| Industry: Cement Industry-Fedure(?) Portland Cement |
2 |
72 |
| Industry: Sauerkraut Industry-Making Cans-Empire Pickling Company |
2 |
73 |
| Industry: Paint Industry-Dupont Rayon and Dupont Cellophane Plants |
2 |
74 |
| Industry: Carpet Industry-Rugs-Bigelow-Sanford Company, Inc. |
2 |
75 |
| Industry: Wallpaper and Color Industry-Imperial Paper and Color Corporation, Hudson Falls, N.Y. |
2 |
76 |
| Industry: Oil Industry-Standard Oil Plant, Buffalo, N.Y. |
2 |
77 |
| Industry: Art Metal Industry-Making Door-Art Metal Products Company, Jamestown, N.Y. |
2 |
78 |
| Industry: Musical Instrument Industry-The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company |
2 |
79 |
| Transportation: Old Stagecoach, Cherry Valley Turnpike |
2 |
80 |
| Transportation: Covered Bridge, Catskills |
2 |
81 |
| Transportation: The DeWitt Clinton, 1831 (sketch) |
2 |
82 |
| Transportation: Old Canal Lock |
2 |
83 |
| Transportation: Old Canal Inn, Crescent, N.Y. |
2 |
84 |
| Transportation: Erie Canal Boat (art reproduction) |
2 |
85 |
| Transportation: Saratoga in August (Automobiles) |
2 |
86 |
| Niagara Falls: Horseshoe Falls |
3 |
1 |
| Education: Seneca Vocational High School (1 of 2) |
3 |
2 |
| Education: Seneca Vocational High School (2 of 2) |
3 |
3 |
| Industry: Electrical Industry-General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y. |
3 |
4 |
