These images owned by the Larchmont Historical Society, date from 1893 to 1911 and include personal photos as well as those of the business district and life in Larchmont.
Larchmont has a rich history of active local political activity. This collection features advertisements, pamphlets and flyers donated by candidates over the years and scanned into the digital archive.
The Historical Society has attempted to include both sides of each campaign or issue and is always interested in adding more material from elections in the Village of Larchmont, Town of Mamaroneck or Mamaroneck School District.
Site Link: Local Politics Through The Years
The Larchmont Historical Society owns approximately 100 items of clothing dating from 1860 to 1940, worn by several generations of the family that lived at 46 Magnolia Avenue from 1891 to 1996. Photos of the clothes appear in this collection.
Site Link: June Freeman Allen Costume Collection
Engine One in the 1920s or 1930s
These are images featuring the Larchmont Fire Department that have been put together by members of the Larchmont Historical Society’s Fire Committee. They include:
Site link: The Fire History Collection
Boston Post Road Business District
This is a comprehensive collection of images donated to the Historical Society by Sidney Astle, a Larchmont Village Trustee in the 1980s.
Site Link: The Sidney Astle Collection
Schooner Aground at Manor Beach
Over the years, the Larchmont Historical Society Archive has amassed a large number of images in addition to those in the named collections. The original picture or slides can be found in notebooks, collection boxes and files at the Archive.
There are photos of local homes, public agencies, churches, civic organizations, neighborhoods and parks. In addition there are images scanned from slides of LHS lectures, including those by Sherman Totten from his presentation “Larchmont Through The Years.”
Central Grammar School
This is a comprehensive collection of images from Larchmont, gathered over many years of research by author and historian Judith Doolin Spikes. She was the founding president of the Larchmont Historical Society and served for many years as the official Larchmont Village Historian.
Site Link: The Judith Doolin Spikes Collection