Photographs of Bellevue Poorhouse, Blackwell's Island, NY, 1900. Via the Museum of the City of New York ( link ).

Photographs of the Kings County Almshouse, Brooklyn, NY, Circa 1900, via the Museum of the City of New Yo...

Richmond County Almshouse, Port Richmond, NY, 1900. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Art...

Chenango County Almshouse, Preston, NY, 1900. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, So...

The Women's Day Room, Oneida County Almshouse, Rome, NY, 1900. Source: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter C...

These photographs, held by the Harvard University Library , depict the almshouse complex as it appeared around the time of the 1901 map. ...

Although I've posted this picture of St. Mark's Church before, this is a much better version of the image. You can see that there ...

Today we continued the excavation of the dry well, which I should more properly call Feature 1, considering that we are not 100% sure that...

Although it is labeled "Spencer Optical Works," the buildings in this photograph don't seem to resemble the other photos of...

The two stereoviews above were taken by Lyman Beers Gorham . In the first, you can see the store of Lyman's brother George Gorham o...

The grandson of Oliver Knapp (and son of my late grandmother's close friend) Frank just alerted me to these two stereographic images ...

George W. Gorham's Store on West Main St. and Maple Ave. I have recently been in touch with Frank, the grandson of town historian Ol...