Photograph collection, 1879-1986.

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Photograph collection, 1879-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155515739

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.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6879367

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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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...