Tarrytown Post Card Company
Unlike Russell & Lawrie in Tarrytown and Edward Farrington in North Tarrytown (today’s Sleepy Hollow), we know very little about the Tarrytown Post Card Company. It was apparently a single person operation by John D. Hazen, the music director at Hackley School and Miss Mason’s School “The Castle”. Hazen also appears to have been a local scoutmaster.
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Public Library, Tarrytown, N.Y. This half tone card has no numbering.
Tarrytown Post Card Company. numbered P-60879. “Lyndhurst,” Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, Tarrytown, N.Y. Helen Miller Gould Shepard (1868-1938) was an American philanthropist and daughter of railroad magnate Jay Gould. Lyndhurst was a Gould summer residence.
“Lyndhurst,” Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, Tarrytown, N.Y. This photo card has no numbering.
Tarrytown Post Card Company numbered 216802. Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow. View from Old Graveyard. Erected 1685. Tarrytown-on-Hudson. Actual date of construction is not known, but generally placed between 1685 and 1697.
Hospital, Tarrytown, N.Y. This photo card has no numbering.
High School, Tarrytown, N.Y. This photo card has no numbering.
Tarrytown Post Card Co. numbered 33796. Washington Irving High School, Tarrytown, N.Y. Today this is the Washington Irving Intermediate School.
Sleepy Hollow Bridge, Tarrytown, N.Y. This photo card has no numbering.
Entrance to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N.Y. This photo card has no numbering.
Washington Irving Memorial Bridge, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, N.Y. Also with an inset of the old king post Headless Horseman bridge. Tarrytown Post Card Co. numbered P-60895.
Tarrytown Post post card numbered 86.68. The Arbor, John D. Rockefeller Residence, Pocantico Hills, N.Y. Like Farrington, the Tarrytown Post Card Co. featured scenes from the Rockefeller estate.
Jim Logan
By day, Jim Logan is superintendent of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a position that requires him to keep excellent company with the permanently quiet residents of one of America's most storied burial grounds. By night—and weekends, and probably lunch breaks—he's a historian with an unhealthy appetite for crumbling newspaper archives and forgotten local lore. After more than two decades of research, Jim has assembled a formidable collection of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown historical resources, which he mines for the stories that appear on Sleepy Hollow Country. If there's a ghost with a tale to tell, a legend with a plot hole, or a 19th-century scandal gathering dust in the archives, he'll find it.
