The American East

Small-Town America:  Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection

American Memory, Library of Congress

This collection contains 12,000 photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.  The views show buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages, as well as natural landscapes.  They also depict agriculture, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local celebrations, natural disasters, people, and costumes.