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14 Photos Of Staten Island From Before You Were Born

<p>Midland Beach, 1898</p>


<p>Midland Beach,1899</p>


<p>"Men with horse and wagon outside Ogden &amp; Wallace Iron and Steel, ca. 1895"</p>



<p>Billou-Stillwell-Perine House, ca. 1900</p>


<p>Black Horse Tavern, ca. 1915</p>


<p>Ice in the Staten Island Ferry slip, ca. 1914</p>



<p>Rodman Wanamaker and Indian Chiefs at the 1914 groundbreaking for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_American_Indian_Memorial">National American Indian Memorial</a>, which was never completed.</p>


<p>Hope Avenue, no. 139. November 30th, 1937.</p>


<p>St. Marks Place, nos. 340348, November 30th, 1937</p>


<p>Staten Island Lighthouse, 1917</p>


<p>Sailors' Snug Harbor, 1899</p>


<p>"A man walking in a heavily wooded area on Staten Island—September 3rd, 1888." Or more likely: A GHOST.</p>



<p>circa 1932</p>


<p>That time that the ferry was split with a men's side and a women's side.</p>