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Luna Island and American Falls in Winter
View of the Niagara River at the American Falls in the winter. In the foreground, snow covers an observation point on Luna Island. Beyond the observation point, the Niagara River cascades over the falls.
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Winter Wonderland
View of the Pond in Central Park in the winter. Crowds gather to ice skate on the Pond and to sled down the surrounding slopes. To the right, the buildings of Manhattan border the south side of the park.
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Lake Placid Bobsled Run
Four man Olympic bobsled team crossing the finish line on Mount Van Hoevenberg in the Adirondack Mountains in 1932. A small crowd of on-lookers are gathered at the finish line. The US four man team went on to win gold and silver that year.
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Ice Boating
An iceboat on the Hudson River near Hyde Park, circa 1900. Shoreline in the distance shows tree covered hills and some buildings, possibly houses and farms. The first iceboat in America is attributed to Oliver Booth in 1790 at Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Ready Set Go!
View of a snowshoe race held on the grounds of the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. In the foreground, several men wearing snowshoes and large numbers pinned to their chests race across the snow. The snowshoe distributes a person's weight over a larger area so that their foot does not sink.
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Aerial view of winter
View of La Guardia Airport in Queens, New York City in winter, looking northwest across the East River towards the Bronx. Riker's Island can be seen to the right. The site of the airport was originally the Gala Amusement Park owned by the Steinway family.
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It's beginning to look a lot like...snow!
View of Wood's Lake in Benson Township, 1906. The landscape is covered with snow and a row of deciduous and coniferous trees in the middle ground. This image was created to record the forestry and parks activities of the New York State Conservation Department.
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Ice Harvesting
Ice was cut from the surface of ponds, streams and other water ways, then stored in ice houses before being transported to its final destination. This image shows ice harvesters pulling cakes of ice through the short, or Monk, Canal. Stuyvesant Landing, Hudson River, N.Y. (1912).
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Get those sleigh bells ready!
Man driving a horse-drawn ice cart in snowy forest near Woodhull Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. The carts were used in winter to spray logging roads with water to form an icy cover, making transportation by sled easier.
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Researching New York’s Dutch Heritage
Attica Uprising and Aftermath: Selected Documents
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