Hastings in Yonkers!

08 Nov 2010

Hastings in Yonkers!

November 8, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1890s, News/Current Events

“View at Hastings-on-Hudson,” painted by Jasper F. Cropsey ca. 1891, on view at the Hudson River Museum, and currently part of their Paintbox Leaves exhibition. We have so loved working on this blog, dear readers, and sharing the wonderful stories and photographs that the Historical Society has collected over the […]

23 Jul 2010

Hastings’ First Female Doctor

July 23, 2010
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1880s, 1890s, Collection, Hastings History

Sarah Elizabeth “Lizzie” Curry, probably taken in the 1880s.
Do you find obituaries depressing? But you never know what fascinating lives lie behind these short paragraphs! Take a look at this obituary from the Yonkers Herald Statesman of 1932.

“Hastings-on-Hudson, May 31 – Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Curry, one of the […]

25 Mar 2010

Broadway: A Millionaires’ Playground

March 25, 2010
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The New York City Coaching Club’s road coach “Pioneer” stopping to change horses in Hastings on the way to the Ardlsey Country Club, ca. 1900. (This photograph is a detail of the photograph further down the page. Click either one to examine it more closely in Flickr.)
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01 Dec 2009

Open House This Saturday, Dec. 5th

December 1, 2009
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1880s, 1890s, Collection, Society Events

Now that Thanksgiving is over and the last slice of pumpkin pie has been eaten, we can turn our attention to the next set of holidays! We don’t often open the cottage on a Saturday, but in honor of the season we are going to have an open house this […]

05 Oct 2009

Cutting Edge Technology in Hastings: The Phonograph

October 5, 2009
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1890s, 1900s, Collection, Mystery Photos

If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you probably have some sense of how many unidentified photographs we have in our collection. In order to identify a photograph, we have to find the right person with the right knowledge, but sometimes that knowledge is not of names and […]

31 Aug 2009

Cutting Edge Technology in Hastings: The Automobile

August 31, 2009
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1890s, 1900s, 1910s, Collection

The Society’s earliest photograph of a car, probably taken before 1907 (click on any photograph for more information) On Memorial Day of 1896, Hastings residents were thrilled by an event that had, until then, only been witnessed by residents of Paris, London, and Chicago – a horseless carriage race! The […]

27 Jul 2009

Beneath Our Feet

July 27, 2009
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1890s, Collection

by Judy Chamberlain The Hastings waterfront in 1929. In a recent post, I wrote about walking on the bluestone slabs and asphalt hexagon tiles that lined the sidewalks of Warburton Avenue. Initially, I wasn’t aware that two local industries, which began in the 19th century and were located side by […]