Photograph collection, ca. 1890-1990.

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Photograph collection, ca. 1890-1990.

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Photographs and postcards of Lynbrook and surrounding areas including pictures of churches, schools, houses, the Long Island Rail Road, Sunrise Highway and other views. Series of note include pictures by village photographer John Cribben, 1956-1989, showing streets, stores, public buildings and other scenes; pictures of the Dayton family, 1900-1965, showing parades, sports teams, the fire department, and family members, especially James Harry Dayton (d. 1921) who was village president, fire chief and school trustee; Himes family photographs showing schools, businesses, streets in the village, and family members, 1892-1930; and photo album, with miscellaneous letters, notes, programs and clippings, of Leo Bock. Bock's photographs include pictures of the Home Guard from Lynbrook drilling and parading, 1917-1918 with a picture of Theodore Roosevelt reviewing the troops at the Mineola Fairgrounds; Red Cross nurses, and women working on the Military Census, 1917; Lynbrook Boy Scouts camping, 1915, including scenes at Camp Wauwepex, Wading River, N.Y., also Boy Scouts working to support the war effort, 1917-1918; the first electric train in Lynbrook; Sunrise Highway in the 1940s and 1950s; the Lynbrook Lyceum; theater groups, sports teams, clubs, parades and other groups and scenes around Lynbrook, with some photos from Valley Stream, Long Beach, and other places on Long Island.

2 cubic ft.

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Lynbrook Lyceum (Lynbrook, N.Y.)

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American Red Cross. Nursing Services.

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Bock, Leonhard

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Camp Wauwepex (Wading River, N.Y.)

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Himes family.

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Cribben, John.

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Sunrise Highway (N.Y.)

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Village of Lynbrook Historical Committee (Lynbrook, N.Y.)

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Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...