![3735633] 1907 Hudson River Improvement, Troy to Waterford, New York Survey, Report and Map. U S....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
This 8-page 1907 government publication documents a key phase in the Corps of Engineers’ work on the upper Hudson River, reflecting strategic priorities under the..... Read More about 1907 Hudson River Improvement, Troy to Waterford, New York Survey, Report and Map
![3735327] Analysis Congress Spring Water. [cover title of ca. 1890s Saratoga Springs promotional...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735327.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753388019)
Rare Saratoga Springs brochure for early bottled water, ca. 1890s. The Congress and Empire Spring Company’s eight-page fold-out states its Congress, Empire, and Columbian waters..... Read More about Analysis Congress Spring Water. [cover title of ca. 1890s Saratoga Springs promotional brochure
![3735326] Saratoga, Flat Rock Spring. [caption title]. 19th c. Mineral Waters](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735326.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205042)
In this promotional brochure, a single sheet folded once to form three pages, the Saratoga Flat Rock Spring is described as “one of the oldest..... Read More about Saratoga, Flat Rock Spring. [caption title
![3735325] List of Hotels and Boarding Houses, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. [caption title]. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735325.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205045)
This folding brochure lists hotels and boarding houses in Saratoga Springs and dates to the early twentieth century. It provides daily and weekly rates, details..... Read More about List of Hotels and Boarding Houses, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. [caption title
![3735324] Excelsior Spring, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Frank W. Lawrence, Proprietor. [cover title]....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735324.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205045)
Rare, with two detailed engravings, this brochure advertises Excelsior Spring Water of Saratoga, available bottled or on draught. The illustrations show a bird’s-eye view of..... Read More about Excelsior Spring, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Frank W. Lawrence, Proprietor. [cover title
![3735323] Mt. McGregor, 1.300, Feet above the sea. Hotel Balmoral. 40 minutes from Saratoga...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735323.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205045)
A rare promotional piece advertising The Hotel Balmoral and Mt. McGregor Railroad Company, aimed at tourists visiting Saratoga Springs, New York, for a mountain-top excursion..... Read More about Mt. McGregor, 1.300, Feet above the sea. Hotel Balmoral. 40 minutes from Saratoga Springs. [cover...
![3735321] Saratoga Springs, Divinely gifted with more than 125 mineral springs. Invites the seeker...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735321.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205044)
Rare Saratoga Springs tourism ephemera issued just one year after the end of World War I. This 1919 brochure from the Saratoga Springs Chamber of..... Read More about Saratoga Springs, Divinely gifted with more than 125 mineral springs. Invites the seeker of...
![3735320] Saratoga Vichy Spring, Saratoga Springs, New York. [cover title]. Saratoga Vichy Spring...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735320.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205045)
Rare 1890s advertisement for Saratoga Vichy Spring bottled water (“more soda and less salt”), with a handsome engraved front panel. This fold-out brochure includes water..... Read More about Saratoga Vichy Spring, Saratoga Springs, New York. [cover title
![3735319] Saratoga. Geyser Spring, The Celebrated Spouting Spring of Saratoga. Sold by all...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735319.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205044)
Rare ca. 1890s promotional brochure for the Geyser Spring, issued by the Geyser Spring Company to showcase its popular bottled “new style sparkling water,” illustrated..... Read More about Saratoga. Geyser Spring, The Celebrated Spouting Spring of Saratoga. Sold by all Principal...
![3735318] Visit the Excelsior Spring, and try the best Water in Saratoga. 375 Broadway, 4 doors...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735318.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205042)
Circa 1890s double-sided trade card promoting the Excelsior Spring of Saratoga Springs, New York. Local physician R. L. Allen claims the water cures dyspepsia, heartburn..... Read More about Visit the Excelsior Spring, and try the best Water in Saratoga. 375 Broadway, 4 doors South of U....
![3735317] Fountain of Health, Putnam Springs & Baths, Phila Street, opposite U. S. Hotel,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735317.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205042)
Illustrated trade card advertising the “New Putnam Spring” of Saratoga Springs, New York. Professor C. F. Chandler analyzed the waters on January 19, 1882, with..... Read More about Fountain of Health, Putnam Springs & Baths, Phila Street, opposite U. S. Hotel, Saratoga...
![3735207] Kirwin & Co.’s Saratoga Springs Directory, 1885. Containing a General Directory of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735207.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205077)
A scarce and detailed late-19th-century local directory for Saratoga Springs, New York issued by Kirwin, offering a snapshot of the town’s social and commercial landscape..... Read More about Kirwin & Co.’s Saratoga Springs Directory, 1885. Containing a General Directory of...
![3735275] Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston. (Association Copy). William L. Stone](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735275.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205073)
Dedicated by the author to Hon. Charles S. Lester, the upright judge and public-spirited citizen. This particular copy is inscribed by Judge Lester himself in..... Read More about Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston. (Association Copy
![3734244] Proclamation. Citizens of Hudson…. Mayor Cyrus Curtiss](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734244.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740090257)
This unrecorded proclamation by Cyrus Curtiss, mayor of Hudson, was issued in the context of the Anti-Rent War, a widespread tenant uprising against the semi-feudal..... Read More about Proclamation. Citizens of Hudson…
![3733303] Ca. 1864 stereoview of the Fort William Henry Hotel and entrance-way, Lake George, New...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733303.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724632989)
Civil War-era stereoview by Sigismund Beer showing the entrance arch and rear of the Fort William Henry Hotel, a popular Lake George resort. The verso..... Read More about Ca. 1864 stereoview of the Fort William Henry Hotel and entrance-way, Lake George, New York
![3733296] Ca. 1880s–1890s photographs of Cohoes Falls and the Cohoes Company Dam, New York. Unkwn](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733296.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724632989)
Three photographs taken along the Mohawk River in Cohoes, Albany County, New York. Two show the city’s famous 90-foot waterfall during the springtime when the..... Read More about Ca. 1880s–1890s photographs of Cohoes Falls and the Cohoes Company Dam, New York
![3734166] Syracuse University “Moving Up” Day. [Real photo postcard, circa 1900s–1910s]. New...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734166.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721775889)
This rather startling image shows a large group of students at Syracuse University wearing playful and creative costumes. [Syracuse, New York: np, ca. 1900s–1910s]. CyKo..... Read More about Syracuse University “Moving Up” Day. [Real photo postcard, circa 1900s–1910s
![3733301] Ca. 1868–1870s photograph of the Saratoga Seltzer Spring Water Co. springhouse in...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733301.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679941892)
The Saratoga Seltzer Spring Water Co. was founded ca. 1868 by the children of Henry W. and Caroline Livingston and their son-in-law, Johnston Livingston. This..... Read More about Ca. 1868–1870s photograph of the Saratoga Seltzer Spring Water Co. springhouse in Saratoga...
![3733076] Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Accompanying a Communication from the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733076.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674534445)
In 1802, a continuation of the claims and petition of Comfort Sands and others that Alexander Hamilton had written a report upon in 1797. An..... Read More about Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Accompanying a Communication from the Comptroller of...
![3733078] Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733078.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675983691)
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1856. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order..... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York....
![3733014] [West Point] General Orders, No. 53. Ward Department, Washington, April 23, 1911. U S. M A](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733014.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675727312)
General orders signed in type by Leonard Wood, Major General, Chief of Staff, outlining 11 character, moral and educational requirements for cadets at West Point..... Read More about West Point] General Orders, No. 53. Ward Department, Washington, April 23, 1911
![3731848] 1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas Young of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731848.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710183124)
Cornell University class photograph album owned by Walter Douglas Young (1870-1945) with his portrait and his classmates. Young was born in 1870 in Aurora, New..... Read More about 1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas Young of Aurora, New...
![3731719] Carte-de-visite of Hudson River Ship Captain Augustus “Gus” Herkenham. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731719.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653767429)
A pencil inscription reads: “My great uncle Gus Herkenham Captain on the Hudson R. [River] for over 50 years.” This is Augustus “Gus” Herkenham (1830/31-1905)..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of Hudson River Ship Captain Augustus “Gus” Herkenham
![3731102] Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems. Katharine S. Harrington](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731102.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634184166)
First edition. Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems
![3730895] 1855–1890, Manuscript minute book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church and Society...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730895.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658768160)
Manuscript Minute Book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland, New York. Recorded are the activities at the annual meetings of the Elk Creek..... Read More about 1855–1890, Manuscript minute book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church and Society in...
