Scope and arrangement
The William B. Osgood Field glass plate negatives, dated 1895 to 1896, consist of sixty 4" x 5" glass plate negatives contained in six boxes, either created by or owned by William B. Osgood Field. The negatives depict structures such as railroad trestles, railroad stations, industrial buildings, houses, and bridges in Hudson Valley towns including Rosendale, Poughkeepsie, Tivoli, Palatine Bridge, Dobbs Ferry, and Hastings. Mott Haven and Harlem in New York City are included as well. A few negatives depict people who are often unidentified. The collection is a single group, not organized by location, subject, or chronologically, so researchers wishing to see images of Rosendale, New York, for example, will need to check all six boxes. Glass plate negatives are fragile. The quality of the images varies.