View more than 100 of Special Collections’ digitized postcards of Long Island.
Dating from the late 1800s, this curated collection of postcards depict scenes spanning from Far Rockaway to Montauk. The collection was donated by Cornell Jaray in the 1980s.
For more information about the department’s extensive Long Island collections, visit its website for regional collections.
Breakers at Rockaway Beach, ca. 1910.
Main Street, Looking West, Huntington, L.I., N.Y., undated.
![Wreck of the Naham Chapin on the beach at Quogue, L.J. [sic], 1910.](http://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-08-01-10_31_41-Wreck-of-the-Naham-Chapin-on-the-beach-at-Quogue-L.J.-si…-_-Flickr.jpg)
Wreck of the Naham Chapin on the beach at Quogue, L.J. [sic], 1910.
Tennis Court, Hotel Clifton, Patchogue, L. I.., 1909.
Kristen Nyitray
Associate Librarian; Director, Special Collections and University Archives; and University Archivist at Stony Brook University Libraries
Contact her for research assistance with rare books, manuscript collections, historical maps, and SBU history. E-mail: kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu.
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