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Grade Crossing, Hartsdale NY (1908)

Grade crossing near the railroad station, which was eliminated in 1912. The Scarsdale Estates Building is in the background. 

Caroline Rest, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  November 25, 1940

Caroline Rest, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  November 20, 1940

Caroline Rest, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  September 1910

Country Club Apartments, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  October 19, 1937

Entrance Hartsdale Canine Cemetery, Hartsdale NY

An entrance to the Hartsdale Canine Cemetery is on the far left off Central Avenue, then a dirt road. c.1910. The cemetery, founded in Hartsdale, N.Y. in 1896 by Dr. S.C. Johnson, was the first of its kind in America. 

War Dog Memorial, Hartsdale Canine Cemetery, Hartsdale NY

This granite memorial is to honor dogs for their service in World War I .

Canine Cemetery, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  July 18, 1911

Greenacres Italian Garden, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  June 9, 1913

View from Greenacre's, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  October 21, 1915

Greenacre's Tea House, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  June 11, 1912

Hartsdale School District 7, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  October 19, 1917

Hartsdale School District 7, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  January 23, 1910

Postmarked  September 6, 1906

Thomas Healy's Roadside Resort, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  October 5, 1917

Hartsdale Avenue, Hartsdale NY

This shot of East Hartsdale Avenue, taken in 1925, shows the Post Office in the foreground. The maze of telephone, lighting, and telegraph wires strung on poles, shown in the background, are now installed conduits. 

Hartsdale Avenue, Hartsdale NY

This photograph was taken several years before the Library moved in on the second floor.

Picture from the collection of Mrs. James M. Cornell Doylestown, PA (Formerly Miss Bertha Ward of Hartsdale)

Postmarked  February 8, 1945

Residence of W.P. Johnston, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked  September 30, 1912

Residence of W.P. Johnston, Hartsdale NY

Postmarked June 29, 1914