This page is devoted to the posting of old photographs depicting early life in Dutchess County, New York. The photos shown on this page were submitted by our visitors. The name and e-mail address of each submitter is supplied so that you can contact the submitter if you have information that will help to identify the photo. If you have photos you'd like to include in the Dutchess County Photo Album, send them to me! Include some descriptive text and the approximate year if you know it and jpg format is best. Lynn Brandvold. We have so many photos of old Poughkeepsie that they have been placed on their own page.
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From White Plains High School Yearbook of 1919
Building of the railroad bridge on Anson Road in the town of Stanfordville. Time is probably in the 1880's.
The town of Red Hook at the corner of what is now 199 & Route 9 looking northeast. The large white building is now a deli. Probably taken around the turn of the century.
Gathering of the family of George Tice at 104 Academy Street,
Poughkeepsie, on June 14, 1908. Back row: George A. Lutz, Martha C.
(Tice) Pearse, Cornelia D. (Fritts) Tice, William G. Tice, Charlotte
(Johnston) Tice, James Croydon Tice, Bessie Gardener (Tice) Lutz. Middle
row: John Gilberd Pearse III, John Gilberd Pearse II, William George
Lutz, Maryann Caroline (Gardener) Tice, Mildred Tice Wolven, George
Tice, George Tice, Leonora (Clampett) Tice. Front row: Carrie Wells
Tice, Clayton Johnston, James Croydon Tice Jr., Annie Gardener (Tice)
Wolven, Byron L. Tice. Photograph by Edmund L. Wolven.
Cyrus E. Wolven and wife Mary Elizabeth Ames (daughter of Elijah W. Ames and Phebe Donaldson). Circa 1900.
Edmund L. Wolven, local photographer, standing in his studio located above City Drug Store on Main St., Poughkeepsie, with his friend Otis. Besides his studio work, he contracted with Vassar College to do their photographs for many years. Circa 1890.
Anna Gardener Tice (1875-1949), daughter of George Tice and Maryann Caroline Gardener Tice.
Workers at Poughkeepsie chair factory.
McDivitt-Wolven wedding on September 23, 1922. Dewey Karchner McDivitt, groom; Mildred Tice Wolven, bride; Mary Harcourt, maid of honor; Frank Miller, best man; Helen Holmes,
flowergirl.
West Pawling House at Whaley lake. Photo taken August 1912.
Neighbors on Academy Street, Poughkeepsie. Guy DeCordova, Mildred
Wolven, and Stanley Hull. Circa 1915
Mildred Tice Wolven and pony. Blue Ribbon awarded by the Dutchess County
Agricultural Society in 1908.
Cyrus E. Wolven (1828-1902), son of William Wolven and Eliza Mooney.
Attended the Dutchess County Academy, worked at the Chichester Chair
Company for 45 years, and was a charter member of the Goose Neck Engine Company.
Sarah Jane (Roy) Graham. Early "calotype" photo made by Slee Brothers Photography of Poughkeepsie, processed in March of 1853. The calotype process was invented in 1851 and this is a rare and early example. Calotypes quickly began to replace tintypes because they were so much cheaper and durable.
The Reubin North home located on the corner of Noxon and Main in Poughkeepsie
Party time in Poughkeepsie! Do you know the identity of any of these people?
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
The Steamship "Idlewild"
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Joseph G. Frost of Poughkeepsie
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
The North Family of Poughkeepsie
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
The North Family of Poughkeepsie
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
The North Family of Poughkeepsie
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Reuben North
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
The Frost Children: Helen (10 yrs), Minnie (6 yrs), and Ray (3yrs) and Allen (10 mos)
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Edna T. Newlin, Daughter of Isaac Newlin and Mary H. North
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Isaac Newlin, circa 1880
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Mary Helen (North) Newlin
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Fred North Morgan and Isabelle Morgan
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]
Helen North Saqne, wife of John Saque, Mayor of Poughkeepsie circa 1896
Submitted by Edward Black [email protected]