Photograph collection, [ca. 1860-1990]

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Photograph collection, [ca. 1860-1990]

Photographs including prints, slides, postcards, tintypes, and aerial views of scenes around Oyster Bay and surrounding communities including Bayville, Locust Valley, and Syosset. Subjects of photographs include houses, stores, hotels, mills, cemeteries, churches, schools, Town offices, fire departments, railroad stations, dams, bridges, and historic houses such as Raynham Hall and Sagamore Hill. There are also three volumes of photographs taken 1976-1977 of streets, houses, businesses, and beaches in Oyster Bay; two volumes of slides and prints of historic houses, including pictures of the restoration of the Wightman House (now the home of the Oyster Bay Historical Society); postcards of houses, mansions, and hotels; and an album of carte-de-visite portraits of the Cock, Frost, and related families.

3 cubic ft.

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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.)

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Sagamore Hill was the home of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, from 1885 until his death in 1919. It is located in Cove Neck, New York, near Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island. It is now the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, which includes the Theodore Roosevelt Museum in a later building on the grounds....

Cock family.

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Frost family.

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Oyster Bay Historical Society

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The Wightman House in Oyster Bay is owned by the Town of Oyster Bay and run and maintained by the Oyster Bay Historical Society as its headquarters. From the description of Architectural drawings, 1964-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155559330 ...

Raynham Hall (Oyster Bay, N.Y.)

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Wightman House (Oyster Bay, N.Y.)

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