Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures captures the bygone days of one of Long Island's most beautiful and historically significant communities. Informative captions accompany photos of the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the Garden City Hotel, the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), the Garden City Waterworks (1876), and more.
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Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs by Bette Weidman, Linda Martin 175 vintage photos recall aspects of life on Long Island from post-Civil War to modern era. Village life, agriculture, local industries, celebrities, early aviation and movie industries, fabulous estates, beaches, much more.
Suffolk County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1867-1951: 184 Prints by Frederick S. Lightfoot, Linda Martin, Bette S. Weidman Charming pictorial history of Suffolk and a bygone era: village life, farming, fishing, shipping, transportation, leisure activities, one-room schools, churches, yachts, more. 184 black-and-white photographs. Introduction. Index.
