1911

Staten Island - Poppy Joe Island Beach - [Stroud place.]

Poppy Joe Island Beach (Staten Island): Shown are three natives of this sparsely inhabited section of Staten Island, located between Midland Beach and Ocean Breeze, near New Creek. From left to right they are: "Dick" Williams (for thirty-five years mail carrier in New York City until picked up dead in the street with his mail sack on his shoulder), James Alexander Stroud, and John ("Jeff") Davis. About 1911 Photo by J.E. Davis Copied by P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection