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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950
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| Description: | Elevated view of industrial section of town showing railroad tracks, brick warehouses, smokestacks and the mountains on the outskirts of town in the backgr... |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the port and a section of the city showing a large boat, a railway depot, a park plaza and a grid of city streets with large buildings. |
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| Description: | A view of small boats docked at a waterfront market in Tampico, Mexico showing a crowd of men in front of a waterfront warehouse, a steel bridge in the bac... |
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| Description: | A view of the Portland Observatory and nearby houses. The observatory is a hexagonal brick building built in 1807 surmounted by a fenced walkway, a domed ... |
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| Description: | View down hillside toward the Lincoln Highway and a Revolutionary War shot factory, surrounded by woods and hills. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Lincoln Highway, also known as the Juniata Bridge, or Juniata Crossing. View toward right side of bridge over a river, with tree-cover... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of National Pike, on the west side of Martin's Mountain. The pike is a winding dirt road proceeding up a hill, surrounded by a fence and tele... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View looking down the National Pike Highway, featuring an oncoming car, and buildings in the distance. |
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| Description: | View of Rock Island Pond, with a telephone pole in the foreground, and railroad tracks leading off into the distance. In the distance is a farm or manufact... |
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| Description: | View down a flat, countryside dirt road, and a sulfur factory plant in the distance. |
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| Description: | A view of Ordination Rock, with an obelisk sitting on top of a flat topped erratic boulder with stairs up the side of it. This is where on September 12th, ... |
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| Description: | The Old Powder House, the original site from 1770. A stone building was erected in 1920 in honor of the Pilgrims' descendants and their fight for American ... |
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| Description: | A view of the cellar door belonging to Gov. Wm. Leete, where the sympathetic Puritans concealed the regicide judges Whalley and Goffe in 1661. Caption read... |
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| Description: | A view of the main entrance to Putnam Park, including two wooden towers on either side of the road, various cannons and cannon balls. There is a swing set ... |
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| Description: | A view of Pulpit Rock, where John Eliot preached to Native Americans. Text etched into the rock reads: "1686 Pulpit Rock -- Sacred Forevermore. 1886." Capt... |
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| Description: | The Old Stone Mill, a circular stone mill surrounded by a fence with benches nearby, in Turio Park. |
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| Description: | An interior view of a colonial trade room of an old fort in New York. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A view of the mill and pond landscape of Sleepy Hollow. |
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| Description: | View of a home which was once General George Washington's headquarters, with people sitting on benches outside along a sidewalk. There are cannons on the l... |
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| Description: | The old church where Washington preached to his soldiers, the surrounding area is likely a cemetery. Caption reads: "The Old Church where Washington preach... |
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