Piermont Fort Comfort Inn, New York, 1908 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Piermont Fort Comfort Inn, New York, 1908. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Fort Comfort Inn Resort
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Piermont Fort Comfort Inn, New York, 1908
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Piermont, a Hudson River village in Rockland County, New York, was in 1908 still shaped by the Erie Railroad, which had run its tracks out to a long pier on the river since the 1840s so that passengers and freight could transfer to steamboats and ferries. By the early twentieth century that rail link had lost much of its earlier importance, and the village was turning toward commuters, summer visitors, and small local trades. Fort Comfort, the inn pictured here, served travelers and residents along the river at a time when the Hudson was still busy with day steamers carrying people between New York City and towns upriver. Piermont's streets and waterfront were modest, and its residents knew the place mainly as a river town tied to the railroad and the water.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | walter, ernst f. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 950 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Fort Comfort Inn Resort |
| Reference | NY 1908 Piermont Fort Comfort Inn |
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