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Catalog of/notes about images on the CD-ROM
Images contributed by Dawne Bullock Norris:February 13, 1907, train wreck near Luzon Station (Hurleyville). Presumably this is the same wreck referred to in To the Mountains by Rail as the explosion of Engine 70, with three fatalities. Inside the bowling alley at the Casino, Loch Sheldrake. Iron bridge over the Neversink at Woodbourne Maple Grove Casino, Loch Sheldrake The circus comes to town, Woodbourne Cold Spring Farm House, C. R. Meddaugh, Proprietor, Loch Sheldrake The Columbia, Hurleyville. This hotel, which remained primarily a gentile house during the Borscht Circuit boom, was still in business in the early 1960s as the Columbia Farms Hotel. Musicians on the bandstand in the Casino, Loch Sheldrake. The Dancing Floor, LeRoy's Casino, Loch Sheldrake. This room is sizeable -- around the size of a modern hockey rink. Divine Corners School. The photo was taken in 1908 by Otto Hillig. The teacher was Bertha Ward. Divine House, J. M. Divine, Prop., Loch Sheldrake Edgewood House, Loch Sheldrake Ella Bullock's "Souvenir". This card, issued by "Lock (sic) Sheldrake District No. 7, Fallsburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y." and dated 1899-1900, was representative of a genre of school souvenirs that preceded the development of school yearbooks. This particular example, signed by the teacher, Herbert Addison Russell, and with Ella Bullock's name written in at the top, listed all the students in the school at that time. Listed (with spellings as provided) were: Henry Fulton, Ethel Fulton, Lester Fulton, George LeRoy, Luella LeRoy, Ethel Gardner, Ella Bullock, Maggie Bullock, Edith Bullock, Jessie Bullock, Ruth Burr, Morris Burr, Euphemia Labagh, Irving Labagh, Elsie Coddington, Mary Coddington, Carrie VanBenschoten, Bertie VanBenschoten, May Eltz, Gorge Eltz, Willard Kracht, Myrth Knacht, Ethel Dobbs, Orrin Middaugh, Mabel Middaugh, Jay Taylor, Bessie Taylor, Roy Schoonmaker, Jay Misner, Herbert Blake, Freddie Blake, Guernsey Gray, Georgia Yaple, Edna Yapple, Sarah Buttler, George Billyon, Abbie Kilbenski, Charlie Munson, Leo Laidlaw, Floyd Rowe, Isabelle Pomeroy. Also on the list, but asterisked to indicate that they were non-residents in the District, were Austin Labagh, Minnie Labagh, Clara Labagh, John Labagh, and Carrie Labagh. P. E. Coddington is identified as Trustee. Entering Divine Corners Evans Hotel, Loch Sheldrake (originally the Roosa Hotel). A short story about the Hotel
Evans circa 1960 can be found on the
Catskills Institute
website.
Gardner House, Milton A. Gardner, Prop., Loch Sheldrake Harvest Time 1900 at Loch Sheldrake: S. R. Divine and his potato digger, including several people who were also presumably involved in the potato harvest. Horses drawing load of milk cans Hurleyville/Loch Sheldrake road. An unknown hotel appears in the background of the picture. Hurleyville Souvenir Factory (view #1). This business manufactured the souvenirs sold at roadside stands before cheaper imports from Asia eliminated the business domestically. Rural Scene, Hurleyville, including two oxen hitched to a wagon drinking from a watering trough. "Very quiet at the Casino", Loch Sheldrake. An interior view. Bridge at Hurleyville. There is a ford next to the bridge, where wagons too heavy for the bridge (or those drawn by horses that would not cross a bridge) could cross the stream. Knapp Block, Hurleyville "La Favorite". An illustration of a famous Parisian ballet dancer around the turn of the 20th century or slightly before. Presumably the picture was considered rather daring at the time. There is no specific connection here to the Town of Fallsburgh, but there is to the era. Laidlaw Studio, Loch Sheldrake. Dawne Norris notes that this photo studio was very popular, and that it later became Otto Hillig's Loch Sheldrake studio. Hillig was headquartered on North Main Street in Liberty, but had branch studios elsewhere in Sullivan County. For example, in 1901 he opened a studio in Livingston Manor (Town of Rockland), over J. B. Harvey's notion store where he was present for business on Fridays. Presumably his arrangement with this studio in Loch Sheldrake was similar. Lakeside House, Loch Sheldrake. This structure is still standing, and is in use as a dormitory for Sullivan County Community College. LeRoy House, Loch Sheldrake Load of logs, 1911. One supposes that this photo was taken as a joke, because clearly the two horses hitched to the logs could not possibly move them. Lower Main Street, Hurleyville. Visible in the photo is the crossing guard's shelter. Many O&W crossings in towns or other high-traffic locations had crossing guards until the early 1940s. Band on Main Street, Hurleyville Meadoff Hotel, Loch Sheldrake Midwood Hotel, Loch Sheldrake Morningside House, Hurleyville "Musshers Alley" at the Casino, Loch Sheldrake. One version of this item is called "Museum Alley" at the Casino. We would like to learn the name by which this area was most generally known. "Now don't you tell!". This cute card of an illustration of children is not specifically identified with the Town of Fallsburgh, but is typical of postcards of the general timeframe of the other cards in this set that did not have a geographic subject. Train wreck at Luzon, Feb 13, 1907 (see the note above) "Off for New York" at Hurleyville station Loch Sheldrake "Cash Store". Notes on the back of the photo say that this store preceded that of C. P. Low. It was Elmer VanEtten's store in the early 1900s, next to Annie Labagh's on the right. Political Day, Hurleyville Post Office, Loch Sheldrake O&W Station, Hurleyville River View Lodge, M. Laufer, Loch Sheldrake The Sheldrake House, Loch Sheldrake. Dawne Norris shares a recollection that this hotel had an ice house, where ice cut from the lake in winter was packed in sawdust to keep it from melting during the summers. Souvenir Factory, Hurleyville (view #2) Summit House, Henry Hornbeck, Proprietor, Loch Sheldrake Temperance Bar at the Casino, Loch Sheldrake. While "temperance bar" sounds like a contradiction in terms, during the campaign for prohibition, such oddities were common. Waldorf House, B. F. Clark, Proprietor, Hurleyville Wayside Inn, Hurleyville William Bullock, Geo. Eltz, and Fred Roosa working on the road Woodbourne, looking North on Maple Street E. Hope Souvenirs, Hurleyville Main Street, Hurleyville Old residents of Hurleyville Post Office, Hurleyville Railroad Avenue, Hurleyville Columbia Hill, Hurleyville total of 57 images
Images contributed by George Shammas:South Fallsburg, showing the O&W tracks Depot, Fallsburg. Remember that the O&W never reached the village of Fallsburgh, and the present-day South Fallsburg was where the Fallsburgh station was located. O&W RR Station, (South) Fallsburg (with crowd) Depot looking North, South Fallsburg, and church. This card accurately notes the location of the Fallsburg depot. O&W Depot, (South) Fallsburg Entering (South) Fallsburg from West (via O&W) "Arrived at Fallsburgh, NY safely" (showing train at South Fallsburg station) 7 images
Images contributed by Marilyn & Tom Forbes:Roxy Hotel, Loch Sheldrake Elm Shade Hotel, South Fallsburg Park House, Mountaindale Murray Hill Hotel, Fallsburg Hotel Plaza of Fallsburg, South Fallsburg The Flagler, Fallsburg Hotel Glass, South Fallsburg Hotel Majestic, South Fallsburg Heiden House, South Fallsburg Grand Mountain, Glen Wild (in the Town of Thompson) Hotel Levitt, South Fallsburg Embassy Hotel, South Fallsburg Hotel Frederick, Glen Wild Glenmore Hotel, Glen Wild (in the Town of Thompson) Rosenblatt's Hotel, Glen Wild Hotel Furst, Fallsburg Harlow's Hotel Irvington, South Fallsburg Hotel Ambassador, Fallsburg Hotel Weingerson, Woodridge Hotel Israel, Woodridge Vegetarian Hotel, Woodridge
Images contributed by Fay Brown Edwards:CPL Joseph D. Pierce (from newspaper clipping) CPL Russell Sprague (from newspaper clipping) P.O. Winfield Merritt P.O. Benjamin Vernooy Merritt Seymour Horatio Merritt Lillie Belle Merritt Armstrong and Charles Armstrong Thelma E. Richard and Douglas DePuy Merritt Cora L. Pierce Heroy Jennie Ball Merritt and Frank DePuy and families Four 50th anniversary couples (newspaper clipping) Merritt House, Woodbourne, NY Mr. & Mrs. Orman Burton Woodbourne School District #4 Abner Merritt and family Jennie Ball Merritt Thornton Layton Merritt home, boarding house, and farm Thornton Layton Merritt and Jennie Furman Martin Freer Merritt and Ruth DePuy Cornelia Layton Kinney Merritt River View House, Woodbourne Armstrong House, Woodbourne
Images from Edmond Brooke Brown:Mountaindale HS basketball team Student (or young teacher) in crowd at Mountaindale HS Mountaindale HS students clowning for the camera Unknown dignitary at Mountaindale HS Mountaindale HS library, view #1 Mountaindale HS library, view #2 Mountaindale HS basketball team, another view Captain (?) of Mountaindale HS basketball team and E. B. Brown (ball is marked "Champs 34-35") Student at microphone at Mountaindale HS Mountaindale HS basketball team, another view Students dancing (the lindy?) Student actress or performer E. B. Brown, with basketball captain (?), manager (?), ball boy (?) Unknown young people (sign says "Mt. Joy" -- this may have been a school trip) Three young females in front of a log cabin, location unknown Mountaindale HS gymnasium Enacting a radio play at Mountaindale HS Classroom photo, Mountaindale HS Mountaindale HS player posing for set shot Snapshot of Mountaindale HS Early audio-visual: student on ladder operating slide projector mounted on basketball rim, Mountaindale HS Posed shot, basketball player guarding player dribbling Post shot, two basketball players holding ball in air (23 images)
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