Facsimile of a c.1890s photograph of Long Island Express drivers standing alongside their wagons at the Hempstead Long Island Railroad station on Fulton Avenue. The company handled local baggage and express deliveries.
Promise to pay note for seven pounds and ten shillings from Isaac Conklin to Joseph Birdsall for the purchase of a horse. Note: Birdsall owned a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. He was also a surveyor, a partner in a grist mill,…
“Greetings from” postcard with image of a farmer plowing a field with a walking plow pulled by two horses. Message and addresses information, both handwritten, on verso. (Color)
A red-coated outrider leads parade of field (riders on horses that are being led by grooms) through paddock. A policeman is walking ahead of the outrider; two men are looking on. Caption on verso describes image on front of card. Also on the verso is…