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    • “Augustina” Great Neck, N. Y.

    • “Augustina” Great Neck, N. Y.

    • Roesler, Edward, 1877-1946 -- Homes and Haunts; Roesler, Jessie Onderdonk Laidlaw, 1875-1962 -- Homes and Haunts; Country Homes -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Kings Point, N.Y.

    • Black and white image of Augustina, the estate of Edward Roesler Sr. and Jessie Onderdonk Laidlaw Roesler, which was probably in Kings Point, on Kings Point Road. Other members of the Roesler family may also have owned estates in Kings Point,...
    • Great Neck Library-Postcards
    • 10 W. Woodbine St.

    • 10 W. Woodbine St.

    • Randall, John Jay; Architecture, Victorian; Architectural photographs; Queen Anne style--Freeport (N.Y.)

    • This photograph is from collection of 8" x 10" black and white photographs that feature remarkable architectural details of local Freeport buildings. This is the onion dome that capped the roof of the shingle style Queen Anne Victorian owned by...
    • Freeport Memorial Library
    • 10 W. Woodbine St.

    • 10 W. Woodbine St.

    • Randall, John Jay; Architecture, Victorian; Architectural photographs; Queen Anne style--Freeport

    • This photograph is from collection of 8" x 10" black and white photographs that feature remarkable architectural details of local Freeport buildings. These are the domed windows and roof of the shingle style Queen Anne Victorian owned by John J....
    • Freeport Memorial Library
    • 10. - Bathing Beach, Great Neck, L. I.

    • 10. - Bathing Beach, Great Neck, L. I.

    • Bathing Beaches -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Bathing Beaches -- Little Neck Bay; Piers -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Swimmers -- New York (State) -- Great Neck

    • Colorized view of the waters, stationary wood piers, and floating pier at the public bathing pavillion that once stood near the end of Steamboat Road, on what was once the Hayden Coal Yard. Many swimmers and other people can be seen in the image.
    • Great Neck Library-Postcards
    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road

    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road

    • George V. Bullen and Son (Great Neck, N.Y.); Gilliar and Gilliar Pharmacists (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of the intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck Road from 607 to 625. Establishments shown in this image include Nassau Radio and Television...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue

    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue

    • John Papas Unlimited (Great Neck, N.Y.); Fairview Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing northeast, of the intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck road from 607 to 625. Establishments shown in this image include Nassau Radio and...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 101 S. Main St.

    • 101 S. Main St.

    • Architecture; Architectural photographs; South Main Street--Freeport (N.Y.)

    • This photograph is from collection of 8" x 10" black and white photographs that feature remarkable architectural details of local Freeport buildings. This photograph shows the detail of the building's eaves featuring an Italianate bracketed...
    • Freeport Memorial Library
    • 540 to 607 (odd and even numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • 540 to 607 (odd and even numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • Nassau Radio and Television Company (Great Neck, N.Y.); Bachet Designers Clothes (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of Middle Neck Road and commercial buildings on it. Establishments shown in this image include Nassau Radio and Television Company, Bachet Designers Clothes, George C. Anderson Furniture Refinishing,...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue

    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue

    • Dick's Luncheonette (Great Neck, N.Y.); Fairview Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of the intersection of Middle Neck Road and Fairview Avenue. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck road from 599 to 613. Establishments shown in this image include Mark Harris Haircutters,...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 653 to 665 (odd numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • 653 to 665 (odd numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • Harick Press (Great Neck, N.Y.); Kolson Korenge (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of buildings on Middle Neck Road, opposite the Village Green. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck Road from 653 to 665. Establishments shown in this image include Kolson Korenge, a lumber...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 661 Middle Neck Road

    • 661 Middle Neck Road

    • Post Offices -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Postal Service -- New York (State) -- Great Neck -- Buildings; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Black and white image, taken facing east, of the Old Village Station United States Post Office building at 661 Middle Neck Road, opposite the Village Green. Image also shows the sides of the buildings at 653 and 665 Middle Neck Road.
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 637 to 647 (odd numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • 637 to 647 (odd numbered) Middle Neck Road

    • Jem Stationery (Great Neck, N.Y.); Village Coffee Shop (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of buildings on Middle Neck Road, opposite the Village Green. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck Road from 637 to 647. Establishments shown in this image include Jem Stationery, William...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 675 Middle Neck Road

    • 675 Middle Neck Road

    • Long Island Trust Company (Great Neck, N.Y.); Bank of Great Neck (Great Neck, N.Y.); Banks and Banking -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing east, of the Long Island Trust Company building at 675 Middle Neck Road, flanked by two parking lots. The building shown in this image had previously been the second Bank of Great Neck building, the first one...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Hicks Lane

    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Hicks Lane

    • Great Neck Pharmacy (Great Neck, N.Y.); Automobiles -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Hicks Lane (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of buildings on Middle Neck Road, at the intersection of Hicks Lane, opposite the Village Green, the Arrandale School property, and Arrandale Avenue. Establishments shown in this image include the...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 767 Middle Neck Road

    • 767 Middle Neck Road

    • Village of Great Neck Garage (Great Neck, N.Y.); Police -- New York (State) -- Nassau County; Public Works -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing east, of the Village of Great Neck Parking Field, and the Village of Great Neck Department of Public Works Garage, at 767 Middle Neck Road. Also shown in this image, in the lower left corner, is a small Nassau...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • Middle Neck Road, intersection of Grace Avenue

    • Middle Neck Road, intersection of Grace Avenue

    • Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Grace Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Parades; Commercial streets -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white view of a parade on a paved Middle Neck Road, near the intersection of Grace Avenue. Automobiles, a marching band, parade watchers, and storefronts can be seen in the image. The event captured in this image has been identified as...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Leslie Howard (1893 - 1943), mounted on masonite, which was likely a press or promotional photo. Mr. Howard was a British actor who lived in Great Neck in the early 1920's on East Shore Road. The Great Neck Library does not...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of George M. Cohan (1878 - 1942), mounted on masonite, shown reading, presumably aloud, and wearing a tuxedo. Cohan was a prominent composer, songwriter, actor, producer, and playwright who lived on a waterside estate off...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Marilyn Miller (1898 - 1936), a singer and theater and film actress who lived on Nassau Drive in the Village of Kensington. Image is mounted on masonite, and was likely a press or promotional photo. The Great Neck Library...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Frank Craven (1875 - 1945), an actor, director, playwright and producer, who is perhaps best known for originating the role of The Stage Manager in the original 1938 Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Eugene Edward Buck (1885 - 1957), a director and president of ASCAP, and a Broadway lyricist, writer, producer, composer, and director, who produced and/or worked on numerous Ziegfeld Follies productions. Buck lived at 54...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Cord Meyer, Sr. (1894 - 1964). Mr. Meyer was an industrialist and real estate developer before he left the business world to become a diplomat. He owned an estate, The Cove, now Cove Lane, off of West Shore Road. Image is...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Arthur M. Hopkins (1878 - 1950), a Broadway producer, director, writer, and theatre owner and operator, who lived in Great Neck between 1934 and 1941, on Middle Neck Road, where Clover Drive is now. It is said that Eugene...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875 - 1966). Sloan lived in Great Neck between 1936 and 1959. He helped build General Motors into one of the world's largest companies. He also started the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1937...
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    • Black and white image of Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940). Chrysler was a machinist and a self-trained engineer who worked his way up from the factory floors to form the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. He had previously been president of Buick for...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 - 1940). Livermore moved into his Kings Point mansion, Locust Lawn, in 1921. He was famous for being a stock trader who built and lost several multi-million dollar fortunes in the stock...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975). Pelham Grenville and Ethel Wodehouse lived in at least two different homes in Great Neck, one on North Drive in the Village of Kensington, and another, which still stands, on Arrandale Avenue...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of a May 1923 Hearst's International magazine cover showing an image of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948). The Fitzgeralds rented a home at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck Estates from October...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of writer, humorist, and columnist Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), who lived in the 1920's with his family in a home that still stands at 325 East Shore Road. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was a well respected humor and sports writer...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb (1893 - 1966). Born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck, Clifton Webb was a ballroom dancer, stage actor, and musical and revue performer before becoming a well known film actor in such movies as...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 160 Steamboat Road

    • 160 Steamboat Road

    • John Britton Homeward Hotel (Great Neck, N.Y.); Steamboat Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Hotels -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Black and white image of the John Britton Homeward Hotel, which also housed a saloon. Sign below hotel sign reads, "Federal Brew'g Co. Lager Beer." The property in this image was later the home of Kings Point Indoor Tennis, west of Potters Lane on...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of socialite, journalist, and newspaper editor Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958). Swope and his wife, Margaret Pearl Honeyman Powell Swope, lived in Great Neck from 1921 to 1928, on East Shore Road, in a Victorian mansion...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of businessman and investor Harry Ford Sinclair (1876 - 1956). Sinclair lived in a home in Kings Point, off of West Shore Road, where Sinclair Drive is now. He owned the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, and owned or had...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Sam H. Harris (1872 - 1941). Sam Henry Harris was a fight promoter and Broadway producer. He co-produced over fifty shows with George M. Cohan, who was once his brother-in-law. Harris and Cohan had married sisters, Harris...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Cord Meyer Jr. (1920 - 2001). Son of Cord Meyer Sr., a well known real estate developer, Cord Meyer Jr. became a decorated hero for his service in the Marines in World War II. In 1946 he won the O. Henry and MGM Atlantic...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Ernest Truex (1889 - 1973). Truex was trained as a Shakespearean actor and became a well known character actor. He had a seven decade long career in silent films, Hollywood films, television, and stage plays. He is...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of actor, revue performer, writer, and comedian Ed Wynn (1886 - 1966). Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, Ed Wynn and his family lived in several homes in Great Neck in the 1910's and 1920's. In his book, Ed Wynn's Son, actor Keenan...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Black and white image of Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 - 1960). Oscar Greeley Glendenning Hammerstein was a librettist, lyricist, and producer whose collaborations with Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers resulted in such notable...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
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    • Country homes -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Advertising, Classified; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Black and white magazine clipping showing an unidentified home in Great Neck, and written information about the home for sale. The text on this item describes the home in the image as a twenty two room colonial residence, on approximately four...
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs
    • 1886 Woodcleft Canal, Freeport, L.I.

    • 1886 Woodcleft Canal, Freeport, L.I.

    • Woodcleft Canal--Freeport (N.Y.); Piers and wharves

    • 1886 Woodcleft Canal, Freeport, L.I. Two black and white view of Woodcleft Canal. The larger shows Woodcleft Inn and bathing pavilion at the head of the Canal and the smaller shows children on a dock crabbing. This was before the canal was...
    • Freeport Memorial Library
    • 1886 Woodcleft Canal/Crabbing

    • 1886 Woodcleft Canal/Crabbing

    • Canals; Woodcleft Canal--Freeport (N.Y.)

    • Black and white postcard showing the top of the Woodcleft Canal, and an inset picture of a group of children and a dog crabbing. In the larger picture are the Woodcleft Canal and its bathing beach. To the left is the ferry landing to Point...
    • Freeport Memorial Library
    • gnlP0006

    • gnlP0006

    • Allen, John - Homes and Haunts; Allen, Margaretta - Homes and Haunts; Little Neck Bay; Great Neck Estates, N. Y.

    • Image on printed material. Image shows a home overlooking the water. Home in image was owned by Johnny and Margaretta Allen. Caption reads, "Old Homestead - Great Neck Estates." Image is very similar to the one in gnlP0049.
    • Great Neck Library-Photographs

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