From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Depot, Lagrangeville, NY. 38.
Image of a passenger station and depot with two sets of railroad tracks and utilitarian buildings in the distance. The station is a modest frame building with a combination hip and gable roof. It was part of the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad. Lagrangeville is about 100 miles north of New York City. Milk cans standing on the platform reflect that in the station's heyday, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transporting regional dairy products was a major source of income for the railroad, as well as commuter traffic to and from the City. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to New England or upstate New York. The glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street.
