Photographs, 1915-1967.

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Photographs, 1915-1967.

Photographs by Max Hubacher, including black & white photoprints and photo albums, of scenes near his home in the Gibson section of Valley Stream, as well as in Hewlett, Woodmere, Lynbrook, Hempstead, Garden City and other places on Long Island. Pictures show Hubacher's home, houses under construction in suburban developments, stores, Long Island Railroad stations and trains (including steam engines), trains and trolleys in other cities, a Ringling Bros. circus train in Garden City, 1950; schools, parks, farms, floods and snowstorms, fairs, circuses and parades. Also old family photographs, 1915; pictures of Hubacher's wife and children, 1930s to 1960s; Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and school groups; historic houses and buildings, including Sagamore Hill and Montauk Lighthouse; New York World's Fairs, 1939/40 and 1964/65; ships in New York harbor; and scenes in Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and elsewhere.

1 cubic ft.

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