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    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road

    • Intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road

    • George V. Bullen and Son (Great Neck, N.Y.); Gilliar and Gilliar Pharmacists (Great Neck, N.Y.); Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Commercial Buildings -- Great Neck (N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing southeast, of the intersection of Middle Neck Road and Beach Road. Image shows odd numbered addresses on Middle Neck Road from 607 to 625. Establishments shown in this image include Nassau Radio and Television...
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    • 767 Middle Neck Road

    • 767 Middle Neck Road

    • Village of Great Neck Garage (Great Neck, N.Y.); Police -- New York (State) -- Nassau County; Public Works -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.)

    • Black and white image, taken facing east, of the Village of Great Neck Parking Field, and the Village of Great Neck Department of Public Works Garage, at 767 Middle Neck Road. Also shown in this image, in the lower left corner, is a small Nassau...
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    • Black and white panoramic image is of an unknown parade, likely the same parade shown in gnlP0360. The Great Neck Library does not have extensive information about this image. If you have information about this image, please contact us at...
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    • Black and white panoramic image is of an unknown parade, likely the same parade shown in gnlP0359. The Great Neck Library does not have extensive information about this image. If you have information about this image, please contact us at...
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    • Black and white image is of the Great Neck High School football team, circa 1927. The Great Neck Library does not have extensive information about this image. If you have information about this image, please contact us at 516-466-8055, ext. 218, or...
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    • Black and white image of George M. Cohan (1878 - 1942), mounted on masonite, shown reading, presumably aloud, and wearing a tuxedo. Cohan was a prominent composer, songwriter, actor, producer, and playwright who lived on a waterside estate off...
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    • Black and white image of Marilyn Miller (1898 - 1936), a singer and theater and film actress who lived on Nassau Drive in the Village of Kensington. Image is mounted on masonite, and was likely a press or promotional photo. The Great Neck Library...
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    • Black and white image of Frank Craven (1875 - 1945), an actor, director, playwright and producer, who is perhaps best known for originating the role of The Stage Manager in the original 1938 Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and...
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    • Middle Neck Road

    • Middle Neck Road

    • Middle Neck Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Beverly Road (Great Neck, N.Y.); Kensington, N.Y.

    • Laminated image on printed material. An intersection on Middle Neck Road, probably at the intersection of what is now Beverly Road. Image was taken facing north. None of the extensive homebuilding that would be done in Kensington is evident in this...
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    • Black and white image of Eugene Edward Buck (1885 - 1957), a director and president of ASCAP, and a Broadway lyricist, writer, producer, composer, and director, who produced and/or worked on numerous Ziegfeld Follies productions. Buck lived at 54...
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    • Black and white image of Cord Meyer, Sr. (1894 - 1964). Mr. Meyer was an industrialist and real estate developer before he left the business world to become a diplomat. He owned an estate, The Cove, now Cove Lane, off of West Shore Road. Image is...
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    • Black and white image of Arthur M. Hopkins (1878 - 1950), a Broadway producer, director, writer, and theatre owner and operator, who lived in Great Neck between 1934 and 1941, on Middle Neck Road, where Clover Drive is now. It is said that Eugene...
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    • Black and white image of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875 - 1966). Sloan lived in Great Neck between 1936 and 1959. He helped build General Motors into one of the world's largest companies. He also started the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1937...
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    • Black and white image of Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940). Chrysler was a machinist and a self-trained engineer who worked his way up from the factory floors to form the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. He had previously been president of Buick for...
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    • Black and white image of Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 - 1940). Livermore moved into his Kings Point mansion, Locust Lawn, in 1921. He was famous for being a stock trader who built and lost several multi-million dollar fortunes in the stock...
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    • Black and white image of P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975). Pelham Grenville and Ethel Wodehouse lived in at least two different homes in Great Neck, one on North Drive in the Village of Kensington, and another, which still stands, on Arrandale Avenue...
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    • Black and white image of a May 1923 Hearst's International magazine cover showing an image of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948). The Fitzgeralds rented a home at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck Estates from October...
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    • Black and white image of writer, humorist, and columnist Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), who lived in the 1920's with his family in a home that still stands at 325 East Shore Road. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was a well respected humor and sports writer...
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    • Black and white image of actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb (1893 - 1966). Born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck, Clifton Webb was a ballroom dancer, stage actor, and musical and revue performer before becoming a well known film actor in such movies as...
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    • Black and white image of radio, revue, stage, screen, and comedy performer Eddie Cantor. Born Isador Iskowitz, Eddie Cantor and his wife Ida built a large Tudor home and outbuildings in 1929, on twenty acres of land that had previously been part of...
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    • Black and white image of socialite, journalist, and newspaper editor Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958). Swope and his wife, Margaret Pearl Honeyman Powell Swope, lived in Great Neck from 1921 to 1928, on East Shore Road, in a Victorian mansion...
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    • Black and white image of businessman and investor Harry Ford Sinclair (1876 - 1956). Sinclair lived in a home in Kings Point, off of West Shore Road, where Sinclair Drive is now. He owned the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, and owned or had...
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    • Black and white image of Sam H. Harris (1872 - 1941). Sam Henry Harris was a fight promoter and Broadway producer. He co-produced over fifty shows with George M. Cohan, who was once his brother-in-law. Harris and Cohan had married sisters, Harris...
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    • Black and white image of Cord Meyer Jr. (1920 - 2001). Son of Cord Meyer Sr., a well known real estate developer, Cord Meyer Jr. became a decorated hero for his service in the Marines in World War II. In 1946 he won the O. Henry and MGM Atlantic...
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    • Black and white image of Ernest Truex (1889 - 1973). Truex was trained as a Shakespearean actor and became a well known character actor. He had a seven decade long career in silent films, Hollywood films, television, and stage plays. He is...
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    • Black and white image of actor, revue performer, writer, and comedian Ed Wynn (1886 - 1966). Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, Ed Wynn and his family lived in several homes in Great Neck in the 1910's and 1920's. In his book, Ed Wynn's Son, actor Keenan...
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    • Black and white image of Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 - 1960). Oscar Greeley Glendenning Hammerstein was a librettist, lyricist, and producer whose collaborations with Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers resulted in such notable...
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    • Allen, John - Homes and Haunts; Allen, Margaretta - Homes and Haunts; Little Neck Bay; Great Neck Estates, N. Y.

    • Image on printed material. Image shows a home overlooking the water. Home in image was owned by Johnny and Margaretta Allen. Caption reads, "Old Homestead - Great Neck Estates." Image is very similar to the one in gnlP0049.
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    • Skidmore, Samuel - Homes and Haunts; Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Saddle Rock, N. Y.

    • Black and white image of the Skidmore estate, on Little Neck Bay, west of Bayview Avenue. Another home can be seen in the background.
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    • gnlP0009

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    • Skidmore, Samuel - Homes and Haunts; Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Saddle Rock, N. Y.

    • Black and white image of the Skidmore estate, on Little Neck Bay, west of Bayview Avenue.
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    • Country homes -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Docks -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • The Great Neck Library's information on the homes shown in this image conflicts with what has been asserted by other sources. Others contend that the home with awnings on the left of this image was the residence of William Slocum Barstow and...
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    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Woodlots -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Utility Poles -- New York (State) – Great Neck; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo of an unidentified man with an implement, standing in front of the yard of 7 Forest Avenue in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. The wooded area in the background of this image was vacant...
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    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Locust Street (Great Neck, N.Y.); Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo, taken facing northwest, of the house at 7 Forest Avenue, at the corner of Locust Street, in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. The unpaved street in the foreground is Forest Avenue. The...
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    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Locust Street (Great Neck, N.Y.); Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo, taken facing northwest, of the house at 7 Forest Avenue in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. The shaded main façade shown in this image, with what looks to be a front door and stoop, faces...
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    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • 7 Forest Avenue

    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Driveways -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo, taken facing northeast, of the house at 7 Forest Avenue in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. The main façade shown in this image, with numerous banks of windows, faces Forest Avenue. This...
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    • Ellard, Robert A., 1869-1970; Meade, Walter; Yeatman, Jesse, 1888-1972; Birthday Parties -- New York (State) – Great Neck – 1960-1970

    • Photo was taken some time in 1969, at a gathering celebrating the 100th birthday of Robert Ellard, who was a Great Neck resident for most of his life. The Ellards were a prominent family in Great Neck for many years. Ellard Avenue is named after...
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    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Locust Street (Great Neck, N.Y.); Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Great Neck, N.Y. Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo, taken facing west, of the house at 7 Forest Avenue, in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. This façade of the house faces Locust Street. This house was built in 1927. Date photo was taken...
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    • Forest Avenue (Great Neck, N.Y.); Architecture, Domestic -- Great Neck (N.Y.); Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Sepia toned photo, taken facing northwest, of the house at 7 Forest Avenue, in the unincorporated area of Great Neck generally referred to as Allenwood. The unpaved street in front of the house is Forest Avenue. This house was built in 1927. Date...
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    • Yeatman, Lewis; Children -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Winter -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Image is of Ann Noble (left), Lewis Yeatman (middle), and another, unidentified child (right). Lewis Yeatman once lived in a 1927 home on Forest Avenue that was owned by his father, Jesse Yeatman. Forest Avenue is in the unincorporated area of...
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    • Yeatman, Lewis; Beale, Charles; Children -- New York (State) -- Great Neck; Great Neck, N.Y.

    • Image is of Charles Beale, also known as Pete (left), and Lewis Yeatman (right). Lewis Yeatman once lived in a 1927 home on Forest Avenue that was owned by his father, Jesse Yeatman. Forest Avenue is in the unincorporated area of Great Neck...
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