Garden City, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1919Handsome 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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Garden City, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1919 Mildred H. Smith No preview available - 1998 |
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7th Street A. T. Stewart acres Alexander Turney Stewart architect automobile avenues and streets became brick building built BUTLER Camp Mills carriage house Cathedral Avenue Central Railroad Cherry Valley City Golf Club City's CLINCH Clinton Road clubhouse Cornelia cornerstone cupola Curtiss designed develop Doubleday entrance Franklin Avenue Garden City Company Garden City Estates Garden City Golf Garden City Hotel Glenn Hammond Curtiss guests Gun Club handsome hangars Hazelhurst Field Hempstead Plains Hilton Avenue International Aviation Meet James L'Hommedieu John Kellum land landscaped later located marble Mead & White Meadow Brook Mineola Moisant Motor Parkway Nassau Boulevard Nassau County Old Country Road park photograph shows plant Quentin Roosevelt railroad station Rainbow Division remodeled Rockaway roof rooms Roosevelt Field section of Garden stable and carriage Stanford White Stewart Avenue tollhouse two-story Vanderbilt Cup Vanderbilt Cup Race Village of Garden Washington Avenue waterworks York