1930s Photo Album Olcott NY & Pleasant Beach Winter & Summer Buffalo Airport ++ For Sale

Great 1930s photo Album with 93 original snapshots. Album measures 10 x 7 inches. Buffalo / Western, NY, area with captions on most of the pages. Highlights include:

• Niagara Falls in all seasons, in 1938 after the old bridge came down.
• Great beach scenes at Olcott Beach, Pleasant Beach - swimming, horseplay on beach
• Fishing at Tonawanda Creek Spring 1938
• Buffalo Airport
• Decoration Day (Memorial Day) 1934 Hamburg, NY
• Learning to drive the 1937 Ford
• Horseback riding
• Tennis court girls
• Teenager in Halloween gypsy costume
• Ice Skating at Olcott
• Olcott Beach - ladies clowning around in ice and snow
• Picnic Fun
• House fire 1933-34
• Pets
• Much more.

Blackwell’s Island, now known as Roosevelt Island, has a deep connection to disability and incarceration. For much of the early 1900s, New Yorkers nicknamed the island Welfare Island after the asylums, prisons, and almshouses that were built there. While most of the buildings have long since fallen into disrepair, the ruins are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dilapidated structures are also listed as a New York City Landmark, and they are the only ruins in New York City to be a local Landmark. This unique designation points to the social and historical significance of this islandIn the early 1900s, the last asylum patients on Blackwell’s Island were moved to other hospitals. The Metropolitan Hospital occupied the asylum building, and Blackwell’s Island was renamed Welfare Island in 1921.

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