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[Nova Scotia], 1922–1923
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Scenes at Darlings Lake, Nova Scotia, and group photos of the surveying class at Dalhousie University, Halifax, April 1923 (Gordon Burris is identified in the latter by his initials, "G.B.").
Envelope 10, 1927 September 3–November 5
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New Jersey Palisades; Perth Amboy and Elizabeth, New Jersey; Staten Island; Grant's Tomb.
Envelope 11, 1927 November 5–12
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New Jersey Palisades; Grant's Tomb; Perth Amboy and Elizabeth, New Jersey; Staten Island.
Envelope 12, 1927 November 12–1928 January 29
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Staten Island; Pelham Bay Park; Sea Bright, New Jersey; Y.M.C.A. Building, Orange, New Jersey.
Envelope 13, 1928 February 5–18
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Views from roof of New Jersey Bell Telephone Headquarters (540 Broad Street, Newark); men in front of "Turner Construction Company" sign.
Envelope 14, 1928 February 18–March 25
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Views from roof of New Jersey Bell Telephone Headquarters (540 Broad Street, Newark).
Envelope 15, 1928 March 25–April 7
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Views from roof of New Jersey Bell Telephone Headquarters (540 Broad Street, Newark).
Envelope 16, 1928 April 8–May 12
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Views from roof of New Jersey Bell Telephone Headquarters (540 Broad Street, Newark); man in front of "Turner Construction Company" sign; Manhattan from New Jersey Palisades.
Envelope 17, 1928 June 3–10
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Passaic River; and Y.M.C.A. Camp Kittatinny at Lake Fairview, Stillwater Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
Envelope 21, 1928 October 14–December 30
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Views of New Jersey: Kearney, from the roof of New Jersey Bell Telephone Headquarters (540 Broad Street, Newark); Kearney Yacht Club; Wanaque Reservoir and Dam, at Wanaque and Ringwood.
Envelope 22, 1929 April 27
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Views from the roof and 27th floor of the Hotel Lexington construction (511 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan).
Envelope 23, 1929 May 18
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Passaic River and Kearney Yacht Club, New Jersey.
Envelope 24, 1929 June 2
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Views from roof and upper stories of Hotel Lexington construction (511 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan), including New York Central Building and American Tubular Tower; Ellis Island; Liberty Island; Jersey City; Brooklyn.
Envelope 25, 1929 June 2–July 4
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Statue of Liberty; Long Beach and Babylon, Long Island.
Envelope 26, 1929 July 4–7
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Babylon, Long Island; ships on Hudson River; Bear Mountain; Bear Mountain Bridge; Indian Point Park (amusement park previously on the site of the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, New York).
Envelope 27, 1929 July 7
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Hudson near Bear Mountain and Newburgh, New York; cable railway at Mount Beacon.
Envelope 28, 1929 July 7
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Mount Beacon and Beacon, New York.
Envelope 29, 1929 July 7–20
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Mount Beacon and Beacon, New York; employees on Hotel Lexington construction (511 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan).
Envelope 30, 1929 July 20–August 11
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Bellevue Hospital from East River; Bronx Y.M.C.A. (470 East 161st Street); Rye Playland; Rye Beach; Rockaway Beach.
Envelope 31, 1929 August 17–September 1
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Mombasha Lake, Monroe, New York; Glen Island Park, New Rochelle; Prospect Park, Brooklyn; and the Chrysler Building under construction, seen from the Hotel Lexington (511 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan).
Envelope 32, 1929 December 21–1930 March 15
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Boats on Hudon River; lower Manhattan skyline; excavation for new Bloomingdale's store (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street, Manhattan).
Miscellaneous snaps received, 1930 March 2, 17
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Mrs. Susan Churchill of Darlings Lake, Nova Scotia, and Gordon Burris.
Envelope 33, 1930 March 15–April 5
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Bloomingdale's construction (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street, Manhattan).
Envelope 34, 1930 May 18–20
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Pilgrim State Hospital construction (Brentwood, Long Island); Bloomingdale's construction (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street).
Envelope 35, 1930 May 31
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Avon by the Sea, Belmar Beach, and Convention Hall construction, Asbury Park, New Jersey; views of ships in New York Harbor.
Envelope 36, 1930 June 14–21
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Pilgrim State Hospital construction employees (Brentwood, Long Island), and Point O' Woods (Point Aux Woods), Fire Island.
Envelope 37, 1930 June 28
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Bloomingdale's construction (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street, Manhattan).
Envelope 38, 1930 June 28
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Bloomingdale's construction (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street, Manhattan). Includes shot of water tower.
Envelope 39, 1930 August 10–October 4
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Bloomingdale's construction (Lexington Avenue at 59th Street, Manhattan); dredge near Oyster Bay, Long Island.
[Photómaton envelope], 1930 December 26
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Seven small Photómaton (coin-operated photo booth) headshots of Gordon Burris.
Envelope 40, 1931 July–August 2
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Dr. Emma Putnam, and friends / coworkers at Rye, New York.
Envelope 41, 1931 August 2
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Friends / coworkers at Rye, New York.
Envelope 42, 1931 October 11
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Fire Island, New York, including Fire Island Lighthouse.
Envelope 43, 1932 January 24
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Port of New York Authority Commerce Building / Union Inland Terminal No. 1 construction (111 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan).
Envelope 51, 1932 July 19–September 3
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Port of New York Authority Commerce Building / Union Inland Terminal No. 1 construction (111 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan), and Camp Moore, Sea Girt, New Jersey.
Envelope 52, 1934 July 4–August 5
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Friends / coworkers at White Plains, New York; High Bridge, Harlem River.
[unnumbered envelope], 1935 May
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Hell Gate Bridge, East River.
[unnumbered envelope], 1935 June 7
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Tinted photograph of the SS Normandie leaving for Europe on her first eastward crossing.
Envelope 58, 1935 June 16
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Glen Island Park and Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, New York; Electric Ferry coming from Port Washington, Long Island.
Envelope 59, 1935 June 22–July 4
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SS Normandie leaving for Europe on her second eastward crossing (at Pier A, Battery); Pelham Bay Park; SS Belle Island, which ran to Roton Point Park, Rowayton, Norwalk, Connecticut.
Envelope 60, 1935 July 19–August 4
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Ships docked in Hudson, lower Manhattan; Ann Mary Hyland (coworker's child).
Envelope 61, 1935 August 4
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Ann Mary Hyland (coworker's child).
Envelope 62, 1935 August 18
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Bronx River Parkway.
Postcards (4), 1929-1931
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Missing Title
- The Lexington / Lexington Avenue at Forty-Eighth Street / New York City [typed list of Turner Construction Company employees on verso, ending with "G. Burris, — Feb. 2, 1929 to Oct. 30, 1929"].
- Bronx Union Branch, Young Mens [sic] Christian Association / 470 East 161st St. Near Third Avenue, New York City [color].
- Bronx Union Branch Young Men's Christian Association / 470 E. 161st St., Near Third Ave., New York City [black and white].
- Broadway Camp Talcott / Huguenot Orange Co., N.Y. [dated on recto: "Sept. 5–6 & 7, 1931"].