Search result: 304 item(s) for: New York State Historical Association Smith and Telfer Photograph Collection -
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acrobatics; circuses and shows; ropes; costumes
Four acrobats (two men and two women) perform outdoors on a high structure made of wooden pillars and ropes. A crowd watches the performance.
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aeronautics; airplanes; men; women; children; transportation; aircraft; autogiros; advertisements; propellers
People gathered around an autogiro. The view is of the front of the aircraft and its propellers. Dated August 9, 1931. "Coleman" written on back of photo.
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aeronautics; airplanes; men; women; children; dogs; animals; transportation; aircraft; autogiros; advertisements
People gathered around an autogiro. The view is of the front of the aircraft. Dated August 9, 1931. "Coleman" written on back of photo.
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aeronautics; airplanes; men; women; children; dogs; transportation; aircraft; autogiros; advertisements
People gathered around an autogiro named the "Nut Gum". A man and a woman walk dogs. Advertisement for Beechnut brand chewing gum on the side. Dated August 9, 1931. "Coleman" written on back.
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African Americans; men; clothing and dress; hats; boats; employees; piers and wharves; hotels
Group of African American men dressed in suits pose standing on a wooden dock and laying on a boat that reads "Kohanza", on the shore of Otsego Lake.
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African Americans; men; clothing and dress; staffs (sticks)
An elderly African American man seated next to a decorative book stand in a photographic studio. The man died at age 95, in 1869. Two exposures on one plate.
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African Americans; women; clothing and dress;
The portrait of a young African American woman standing in a photographic studio. She is dressed formally with a fringed jacket, reticule, and hat. She leans on a upholstered chair which is draped with a decorative cloth.
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African Americans; children; girls; boys; men; horses; animals; clothing and dress; hats; horseback riding; animal grooming; employees
Two men ride horses and two children ride ponies. The men wear suits and hats, the girl wears a dress and hat, and the boy wears a suit and hat. One horse is black; the other is white.
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African Americans; men; clothing and dress; cigars
A group of African American men pose open-air. All wear suits and some of them smoke cigars.
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African Americans; women; children; clothing and dress;
An African American woman holding a white baby girl in her lap poses in a photographic studio. Two exposures on one plate.










