William Joslin is too young to check out a record, but his parents can. Library staff Mary Dempsey and Eleanor Daniels recommend “Children’s Piano Music” at Crandall Public Library. Glens Falls, NY. May 1968. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #217, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Acting Children’s Department Director Agnes O’Brien assists patrons Linda Sutliff, Kathy Jones, and Walter Sutliff during the July 1970 Summer Reading program at Crandall Public Library. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #260, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Reference Librarian, Elizabeth S. McAndrew, looks through the card catalog with a patron at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY. 1970. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #227, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Reference staff at Crandall Public Library. Left to right: Andrea Herman, William Crawshaw (Head of Reference), Teri Weston, Bruce Cole, and Judy Santoliquido. Glens Falls, NY. Circa 1990. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #3091, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Book sale in the rain, put on by Friends of Crandall Library. These were held outside in City Park for many years. Glens Falls, NY. Circa 1970. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #1253, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Reference assistants William Crawshaw and Grace Teague using a microfilm reader at Crandall Public Library. Glens Falls, NY. May of 1971. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #188, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Jenny Hutchinson, Curator of Museum Education & Programming, interpreting for a group of visitors at the Hyde Collection art museum. June 2019. Glens Falls, NY. Photo courtesy of The Hyde Collection. Jenny Hutchinson is an artist and an educator – she’s been the Curator of Education at the Hyde Collection since 2016. She came from […]
Jill Hewitt Johnson is 80 years old, and lives in a retirement community in Watertown. She became a dental hygienist in the North Country, worked all over the United States as a hygienist and in dental education, and spent the last seventeen years of her career at Watertown Correctional, a medium security prison with about […]
Delia Windwalker practicing healing touch in Watertown. October 2019. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. Delia Windwalker, 62 years old, practices what she calls pyschosensory self-care from where she lives in Great Bend, in the town of Champion. This is recent work; the majority of Windwalker’s career has been in institutional advancement of non-profit and religious organizations. […]
Boiling down sap into syrup in the evaporator in the Allen sugarhouse. Warren Allen (left) and Eleanor Allen (right). Croghan, NY. Circa 1990. Donated by Warren and Eleanor Allen. Eleanor Allen moved from New York City to the Croghan area with her husband Warren in 1975. She had never lived on a farm, but got […]
