Huguenot Historical Society Miscellaneous Photograph Collection (1850's - 1970's)

Preliminary Finding Aid completed by Eric Roth 8/8/2001
Last revised 11/7/2000

Volume: 13 cu. ft.

Acquisition: The photographs were donated separately and aggregated together at the repository. Acquisition information is largely unknown.
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Access: Unrestricted.

Copyright: Request for permission to publish materials from these records should be discussed with the Archivist and Director of the Huguenot Historical Society.

Box List with content descriptions

Box #1: Huguenot Street, New Paltz (Late 19th century - late 20th century) 1 cu. ft. Photographs of all types and postcards showing historic and non-historic houses, buildings, and street views on Huguenot Street in New Paltz. Items range in condition from fair to very good.

Box #2: Huguenot Street, New Paltz Photographs - 1998 Grant Materials (Late 19th century - late 20th century) 1 cu. ft. Photographs of all types and postcards showing historic and non-historic houses, buildings, and
street views on Huguenot Street in New Paltz. Items range in condition from fair to very good. There are reprints of these photographs available for research at the Society's Reference Library. There is a separate finding aid available for this box.

Box #3: New Paltz Glass Plate Negatives (early 20th century) .5 cu. ft. Glass plate negative images of buildings, historic houses, businesses, people, etc. in New Paltz. Items range from poor to fair condition. Many are very fragile.

Box #4: New Paltz Area Buildings and Scenes (ca. 1900's-1970's) .5 cu. ft. Matted photographs of buildings, bridges, houses (some Huguenot Street historic houses), businesses, etc., in New Paltz, primarily during the early 20th century. Items in very good condition, although some have been adhered with glue to their mattings. The photographs were used for an exhibit in 1989.

Box #5: New Paltz Area Buildings and Scenes (Late 19th century - mid-20th century) 1 cu. ft. Photographs of all types and postcards showing historic and non-historic houses, churches, and other buildings, structures, and scenes in New Paltz. Items range in condition from fair to very good.

Box #6: New Paltz Area Buildings and Scenes - OVERSIZE (Late 19th century - mid-20th century) .5 cu. ft. Oversized photographs of the New Paltz Normal School, Huguenot Street historic houses, and aerial views of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York.

Box #7: New Paltz Area Covered Bridges (1890's-early 20th century) .5 cu. ft. Six framed photographs, most taken by local photographer Scott Anderson, of covered bridges in the vicinity of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, including Perrine's Bridge. There is also one photograph of well-dressed people boating on Lake Mohonk, ca. 1890's. Items are in fair condition.

Box #8: Non-New Paltz Buildings and Scenes (Late 19th century - mid-20th century) 1 cu. ft. Photographs of all types and postcards showing historic and non-historic houses, churches, and other buildings, structures, and scenes outside of New Paltz. Many other Ulster County and Mid-Hudson Valley images are represented, as well as from the rest of the United States and Europe. Items range in condition from fair to very good.

Box #9: Mohonk and Minnewaska Photographs (Late 19th century - mid-20th century) 1 cu. ft. Oversized, matted photographs of Lake Mohonk and Lake Minnewaska and other scene in the Shawagunk Mauntains. There is also a miniature family photograph album containing views of Mohonk, and photographs of Yeaple Cabin and Dashville Falls. Many of these photographs were taken by skilled local amateur photographers.

Box #10: Miscellaneous People - OVERSIZE (Late 19th century - mid-20th century) .5 cu. ft. Oversized photographs of the Grand Army of the Republic, unidentified childre, an unidentified graduating class, and the Smith Bros. Livery in Montgomery, Orange County, New York, ca. 1895. Items in good condition.

Box #11: Miscellaneous Loose Photographs (1850's-1930's) .5 cu. ft. Stereoptic views of famous historic and natural sites in the U.S. and Europe, and of comic series dating from the 1880's and 1901-1902; a daguerreotype photograph of "Mrs. Horton Elting" ca. 1850's; an unidentified photograph album of postcards and early-mid 20th century photographs; and an album chiefly containing photographs of historic sites.

Box #12: Oversize Miscellaneous Photographs (1880's-1950's) .5 cu. ft. Miscellaneous oversized photographs relating to New Paltz, including photographs of the stone houses on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, including a rare 1880's photograph of the Bevier-Elting House, photographs of the New Paltz Normal School (ca. 1880-1906). Other images document the Wallkill Bridge Ceremony, 1955; the New Paltz Fire Department; and ice-skating at Hasbrouck Park. Items in good condition.

Box #13: Miscellaneous Photograph Albums (1850's-1890's) 1 cu. ft. Albums containing albumen, tintype, gelatin, and carbon or collodion photographic prints of members of the LeFevre, DuBois, Masten, Hornbeck, Bruyn, Westbrook, Mackinson, Ostrander, Wallace, Champlin, Brodhead, Deyo, and Hasbrouck families. Specific subjects and individuals represented in these albums include Civil War soldiers, African-Americans, Abraham LeFevre Elting, Jacob Elting (1803-1899), Abram Hess (d. 1890), John D. Ostrander, Herman DuBois, Cornelius H. DuBois, Josiah P. LeFevre, Ralph LeFevre, and Johannes LeFevre (d. 1864). In the album of Sarah LeFevre DuBois, there is a color-enhanced photograph of an undientified black man playing the violin. Album and photographs range from poor to good condition, with much evidence of foxing damage. Most items were found in LeFevre House 1989

Box #14: Miscellaneous Photograph Albums (1850's-1910's) 1 cu. ft. Albums containing albumen, tintype, and gelatin photographic prints of members of the Deyo, Cookingham, DuBois, Brodhead, Howell, Vanderlyn, Hait, Elting, Church, LeFevre, Hasbrouck, Soule, Reed, Van Orden, Roberts, Hull, Berry, and Smedes families. Specific items and subjects represented include the wedding of Elvira Deyo to Miles Cookingham in 1892, concert program of pianist Ruth Lynde Deyo at Montclair, New Jersey, an issue of the New Netherland Register, 1911, and stereographic view cards made in France depicting the Genesee Falls, Catskill Mountains, and the "Marriage of Satan." There are also photographs of Rev. Venema of the New Paltz Dutch Reformed Church. Albums in fair to good condition, photographs in good to excellent condition. Items found in Deyo House 2000. Some donated by Dina DuBois in 1992.

Box #15: Miscellaneous Photograph Albums (1850's-1900's) 1 cu. ft. Albums containing albumen, tintype, and carbon or collodion photographic prints of members of the Hasbrouck, DeWitt, Hopper, Ross, Elting, Sealy, Masten, Van Alst, Hurlburt, Gow, Schenk, Tuthill, Pollard, Roose, Turner, Milford, Speer, Post, McKeag, TerHune, Powelson, Pratt, Van Iderstine, Bookstaver, Corliss, Smiley, Dennison, LeRoy, Sheriger, Ford, Howell, Jackson, LeFevre, Deyo, Belle, Youle, Kerr, Luther, Smith, Hill, Schrader, and Young families. There are also wedding photographs and images of Civil War soldiers, and a funeral program for Isaac J. Hasbrouck (1873-1949). Albums range from very poor to very good condition, with some cover boards detached.

Box # 16: Miscellaneous Photograph Albums (Mid-late 19th century) .5 cu. ft. Albums chiefly containing albumen prints of the Freer, Simmonds, DuBois, LeFevre, Elting, Deyo and Deyo families, a well as local Civil War soldiers and President Lincoln's Cabinet and other notable U.S. politicians and Civil War officers. One album belonged to local Civil War officer Johannes LeFevre and contains photographs of his teachers and classmates at the Union School, Schenectady, NY. Items range in condition from fair to very good.

Box #17: Miscellaneous Photograph Albums (1850's-1890's) 1 cu. ft. Albums containing albumen, tintype, and gelatin photographic prints of members of the Champlin, Elting, LeFevre,Freer, Schoonmaker, Hasbrouck, DuBois, Roosa, and Auchmoody families. One album in very poor condition, otherwise fair. Photographs is fair to good condition, some foxing

Box 18: Miscellaneous People (1860's-late 20th century) 1 cu. ft. Photographs of all types and postcards representing identified and unidentified people in various scenes and poses. Items range in condition from poor to very good.