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March 5, 2020

Tag: hudson river

A Hudson River Steamer and an Artist Named Samuel Ward Stanton

Ray Hahn March 5, 2020

A Hudson River Steamer

and an Artist Named Samuel Ward Stanton

Official Painting of the Day Line’s Hudson River Steamer, Washington Irving

The Steamer
From 1863 through to March 1949, New Yorkers and nearly everyone who had business or leisure time along the Hudson River had a nodding acquaintance with

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Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League

Bill Burton June 24, 2019

Bill Burton

Inside Sing Sing Prison and
The Mutual Welfare League

Thirty miles north of New York City, on the east bank of the Hudson River, stands one of the most famous, or notorious, prisons in America, Sing Sing Prison.

Sing Sing at first consisted of a single cell block

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