Photograph collection, 1879-1986.

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Photograph collection, 1879-1986.

Photoprints, negatives, newsprint photographs, and postcards of Fishkill Landing, Matteawan, Beacon, and the surrounding area. Subjects include bridges, celebrations, schools, ferries, fires and fire companies, floods, hotels, houses, Matteawan State Hospital, businesses, Mount Beacon, police, railroads, churches, Hudson River, sports, streets, and trolleys.

5 cubic ft.

Related Entities

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Beacon Historical Society (Beacon, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Beacon, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518410 ...

Matteawan State Hospital (N.Y.)

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Matteawan State Hospital opened in 1892 and was originally designed to house inmates previously held at the State Asylum for Insane Convicts at Auburn. Chapter 525 of the Laws of 1904 mandated that Matteawan provide for the custody and care of: those persons committed by criminal courts or transferred there by the State Commission in Lunacy; convicts declared insane while serving sentences of one year or less for a misdemeanor; and for all female convicts declared insane...