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Photo: The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library. The East Hampton Library collection of images has some rare and interesting photos from Long Island's history.   According to a description with the image, this picture shows a shack with the word "Bayshore" painted in large letters on the side. There are two men in the photo. One man leans on the building, the other sits on the porch attached to the building. There are several other buildings visible in the background of the image. This photograph was either taken or collected by Amagansett historian and librarian Carleton Kelsey. ...

Photo: The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library. This image of Christopher Cuffee Sr., a Montauk Tribe member, is from the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library.   Caption on back of photograph reads: The conflict of the Eastville Montauks with the Freetown Montauks, and other matters of tribal interest, seem the furthest things from the mind of Christopher Cuffee Sr., one of the councilors of the Eastville Montauks, as he snoozes in the shade of the ice wagon, sometime around mid-summer in 1900.     Assisted by other tribal councilors such as Walter Halsey, Mrs. M.L. ...

Plain Sight Project Brings Stories Of East End Enslaved People To Light 12 Photos David Rattray is a a co-founder of the Plain Sight Project. RUSSEL BENNETT Donnamarie Barnes is a co-founder of the Plain Sight Project. CHARITY ROBEY The Black Lives Matter protest at Hook Mill in East Hampton in June of 2020. BEN PARKER The Sylvester Manor house built 1737. The Stone commemorating the Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground at Sylvester Manor where there may be up to 200 persons are buried. The stone reads, "Burying Ground of the Colored People of Sylvester Manor since 1651." The stone was erecte...

The East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection. Photo: For educational use only. For any other use, please contact The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library, 159 Main St., East Hampton, NY 11937. 631-324-0222 x 4 or email lic@easthamptonlibrary.org. The East Hampton Library has this old picture of an old salt box house in its archives, known as "Rowdy Hall."   The building, according to a description of the photograph, originally stood on Main Street, at the easterly side of the Presbyterian Church. From there it was moved to Gay Lane, as shown in the photograph above.   It st...

Cropped image of original. Photo: For educational use only. The East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection. Three women appear next to a locomotive train engine on tracks, in attire from roughly 1890-1910. They stand next to three men who are also on track level. Another man appears in the cab of the train engine. The men all appear to be railroad employees. The Eichhorn family did have multiple family members who worked with the Long Island Railroad.     This photograph is part of the collection of the Carleton Kelsey Collection of the Amagansett Historical Association. Kelsey was a ...