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Bird’s eye view of Watkins, N.Y

Description: Image of an aerial landscape view of the village of Watkins Glen, New York, showing the town, surrounding mountains, and a portion of Seneca Lake to the right; with a vignette of Glen Mountain House in the lower margin; location references and history printed in margin.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1872 and 1875
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000535
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Bird’s eye view of Lake Village, Belknap County N H 1883

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the town of Lake Village, New Hampshire, (the village was later renamed Lakeport and is located in the city of Laconia in Belknap County) with labeled streets, as well as the surrounding hills, and waterfront of two lakes: Round Bay (now known as Opechee Bay) and Long Bay (now known as Paugus Bay); location key printed in bottom margin.

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Bird’s eye view of Manteno. : Kankakee County Illinois 1869

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the town of Manteno, Illinois, showing labeled street names, a train passing through, and a harvest scene with hay bailing in the foreground; five location references printed in margin.

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Silsby Manufg. Co. Seneca Falls, N.Y

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam fire engine labeled "Silsby" that is decorated with a small American Eagle on the head light; there is a small vignette in the bottom center margin of an elevated view of the Island Works factory buildings of the Silsby Manufacturing Company in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Bird’s eye view of the city of Red Wing : Coodhue Co Minnesota 1868

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Red Wing, Minnesota, showing steamboats on the Mississippi River in the foreground; with three vignettes in the lower margin of eye-level street views of the public school, Hamline University building, and court house; location key in bottom center margin.

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Bird’s eye view of Confederate prison pen, at Salisbury, N. C. Taken in 1864

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Image of an elevated view of the Confederate prison at Salisbury, North Carolina during the American Civil War showing railroad and several buildings inside the fenced prison complex; numbered key to buildings in lower margin.

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Sandy Hill, N.Y

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the town of Sandy Hill, New York, (now known as Hudson Falls) with the Hudson River in the foreground, and showing logs in the river, rapids, buildings, streets, and mountains behind the rural cityscape; key with 33 locations printed in bottom margin.

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Bird’s eye view of Watkins, N.Y

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