| Quantity: | 26 black-and-white photographs, ranging in size from 9 x 20 cm. to-15 x 20 cm. |
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| Access: | Open for research. Library does not own photonegatives. |
| Restrictions: | White cotton gloves must be worn when handling photographs. |
| Acquisition: | Purchased, Harold Nestler, 1995. |
| Processed By: | James Summa, Senior Librarian, Manuscripts and Special Collections, 2004 |
The 26 photographs of various scenes of the geography and historic sites around the Hudson River were in a string-bound paperback booklet consisting of 25 pages. Included are photographs of the Catskill Mountains and the New York State Capitol building. The book was disbound and each sheet numbered.
| Folder | Image | Caption/[Description] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Washington's Headquarters, [Newburgh, N.Y.]/[Exterior of building] |
| 1 | 2 | Albany Day Line Steamer "Hendrick Hudson"/[Mountains in background; people can be seen sitting on upper-level deck] |
| 1 | 3 | Soldiers' Memorial–Riverside Drive, New York/[People sitting on benches and walking on grounds of the Soldiers & Sailors Monument] |
| 1 | 4 | Grants Tomb, New York/[Horse drawn carriages in the foreground; dozens of people on grounds and steps of the monument] |
| 1 | 5
6 |
Top: Convent of Mount St. Vincent [and] Forest Castle//[View from the river]
Bottom: Towing on the Hudson/[Steam tugboat towing two barges as a steam paddle wheeler passes] |
| 2 | 7 | Phillipse Manor House, Yonkers, N.Y./[Front view of exterior of Philipse Manor Hall; Civil War monument in the foreground] |
| 2 | 8 | "Sunnyside" Home of Washington Irving/[Exterior; mostly obscured by trees and ivy] |
| 2 | 9 | Old Dutch Church, Tarrytown, N.Y./[Exterior of First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, also known as the Sleepy Hollow Church; mostly obscured by bushes; gravestones in foreground] |
| 2 | 10 | Under The Palisades/[Photomontage of three images: a sailboat on the river; a sailboat and a steamer on the river; looking up river from the top of the Palisades] |
| 2 | 11 | Northern Point of the Palisades/[Palisades in background; steamer New York and other smaller boats in the foreground] |
| 3 | 12 | Stony Point. [Inset]: Cold Spring and Mt. Taurus/[Photomontage of two images: the main image is a view of Stony Point with the Stony Point Lighthouse in the background and a sailboat in the foreground; the inset is a distant view of the town of Cold Spring and Mt. Taurus, also called "Bull Hill"] |
| 3 | 13 | Sugar Loaf Mountain/[View from the river] |
| 3 | 14 | Southern Gate of Hudson Highlands/[Boats on river in foreground; highlands on left and right (possibly Anthony's Nose) and in background] |
| 3 | 15 | "Anthony's Nose"/[View from the river] |
| 3 | 16 | Breakneck Mountain/[View from the river, showing an industrial site on the shoreline; boat in foreground] |
| 4 | 17 | Dade Monument, West Point/[View overlooking the river; sailboat on river] |
| 4 | 18 | Looking up the Hudson from Trophy Point–West Point/[Cannons in the foreground] |
| 4 | 19 | Battle Monument – West Point |
| 4 | 20 | In the Hudson Highlands/[Family group in a rowboat in the foreground watching a steamer in the background] |
| 4 | 21 | Kosciuszko Garden, West Point |
| 5 | 22 | Old Cro' Nest and Storm King/[View from the river] |
| 5 | 23 | Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh, N.Y./[Memorial to Uzal Knapp in foreground |
| 5 | 24 | Passing the Poughkeepsie Bridge/[Panoramic view of the bridge from the river, with three steamboats in the foreground coming toward the camera] |
| 5 | 25 | Catskill Mountains [photomontage of five images]: (1) Otis Incline/[Otis Elevating Railway]; (2) The Catskill Mountains/[Distant view of the mountains from the river with a sailboat in the right foreground]; (3) Kaaterskill Falls/[View from the bottom of the falls looking up]; (4) Indian Head From Kaaterskill Cl[ove]/[Road with a wagon ascending the mountain, from Kaaterskill Clove]; (5) Fawn's Leap/[Waterfall in Kaaterskill Clove] |
| 5 | 26 | State Capitol–Albany, N.Y./[Front view taken from height (City Hall bell tower?); includes a view of Washington Avenue] |