Mystery Photo: Anaconda Pioneers

10 May 2009

Mystery Photo: Anaconda Pioneers

Here are two photographs of Anaconda Pioneers, the top taken at a dinner on October 26th, 1950 and the bottom at a dinner on November 5, 1953. An Anaconda newsletter from 1945 reported that employees were already making plans for a club that would be open to anyone who had […]

07 May 2009

The Hastings Hospital

May 7, 2009
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1910s, Collection

by Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Dr. Jenks hopital building in the 1960s. If you have taken a trip down Olinda Avenue lately, you may have noticed that something is missing on the south side of the street. For more years than I can remember, a small, old wood and stucco structure […]

04 May 2009

The 18th-Century Sloop “Nancy”

May 4, 2009
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1700s, Collection

The “Clearwater” and the “Sojourner Truth” ca. 1980. The “Clearwater,” birthed in Poughkeepsie, was built in 1969 by Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. as a teaching tool for environmental education. Here at the Historical Society, it sometimes feels like “history” begins in the 19th century. Aside from a few Indian […]

02 May 2009

Mystery Photo: Sewing Circle at 9 Euclid Avenue

May 2, 2009
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1950s, 1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here is another mystery for you! A group of unidentified ladies are seated around the dining room table at 9 Euclid Avenue, the home of Elizabeth and Harry B. Harvey. Elizabeth is standing in the back, holding a doll that seems to be the model the other ladies are working […]

27 Apr 2009

The Barbers of Hastings

April 27, 2009
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1950s, Collection, Reminiscences

by Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Joe Manzi and a customer in Krueger’s barber shop on Main Street You never know what you are going to find when you visit the Hastings Historical Society. The cottage is a treasure trove of photos and maps, documents and books, and objects from another time. […]

25 Apr 2009

Mystery Photo: Annual Outing of the Zinsser Chemical Company

April 25, 2009
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here is a photograph that needs lots of identifications (click on the photograph for a larger version, and for an even larger one click on the words “All Sizes” above the photograph). It was taken at the 1945 Annual Outing of the Zinsser Chemical Company. The company itself was on […]

23 Apr 2009

Opening April 26th “Milestones in Astronomy: The Drapers of Hastings”

April 23, 2009
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1860s, Collection, Society Events

Chasing the Moon, Part II Henry Draper in Civil War uniform. He served as an army surgeon in 1862. In the last post we described how John William Draper took the first photographs of the moon. His son, Henry, was also a physician and an avid amateur photographer. In 1857 […]

20 Apr 2009

Opening April 26th “Milestones in Astronomy: The Drapers of Hastings”

April 20, 2009
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1830s, 1840s, Collection, Society Events

Chasing the Moon, Part I 2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of the telescope to study the stars, and it has been declared an “International Year of Astronomy” by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO. In honor of this initiative, we have dedicated part of our new exhibition […]

19 Apr 2009

Mystery Photo: Girl Scouts and the Red Cross

April 19, 2009
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1950s, Collection, Mystery Photos

This is an intriguing photograph. It shows two women in a group of what are most likely high school girls. One of the women is in a nurse’s uniform and the other a scout leader’s uniform. The girls are also in uniform, half Girl Scout and the other half in […]

16 Apr 2009

John P. Davies’ Historical Map of Westchester

April 16, 2009
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1700s, 1910s, 1930s, Collection

Every generation of Hastings residents has its history buffs. One such was civil engineer John Percival Davies. Being a mapmaker, Davies came up with the idea of a map that would visually encapsulate the entire history of Westchester County – or at least the period from the arrival of Henry […]