This view is squared off in sections and numbered as a preliminary study for Miller's finished oil of the same subject, dated 1884, which is also in the Society's collection (1949.4). The subject, itself, was from a drawing made earlier by Miller and published as a woodcut in Holden's Dollar Magazine, July 1849.

Sandy Hill is located on the east bank of the Hudson River between Glens Falls and Fort Edward in Washington County, New York, and is now known as Hudson Falls. In 1817 Milbert journeyed north along the Hudson from New York City to Albany, Ballston Spa, and Saratoga, and late in June or very early in July he continued on to Sandy Hill, about twently miles northeast of Saratoga. Sandy Hill remained his base for the rest of the summer while he explored the upstate New York countryside.

This is an on-the-spot sketch of a baptismal ceremony which took place at Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls), New York, in September 1817. Milbert recorded the following account of the incident in his Pictureespue Itienerary: "Upon my return from Whitehall to Hudson Falls, I was invited to attend the baptism of an anabaptist girl eighteen or twenty-years-old. Custom decreed that the minister should immerse her in the river, and this ceremony was performed at ten o'clock on a damp, cold morning...'

This site is not to be confused with Little Falls on the Mohawk River, west of Albany. Milbert explored the upper reaches of the Hudson River in 1818, and commented on "a series of cascades called the Little Falls" in the Sacandaga-Luzerne area. There he saw "a handsome bridge supported by wood piles set on broad masses of calcareous rock, whose reddish hue reveals the presence of iron oxide."

Reuben Moore (1768-1858) was a prosperous Columbia County farmer of Chatham, New York. His grandson wrote that "he was a well educated man and called a philosopher. He was a good business man and owned a large farm in Chatham. He was of good judgment and moral character and highly regarded by all. He was a Master of Chancery (1813), and Coroner...(1799) and...(1801), in Columbia County. He was of medium height, would weigh about 160; had blue eyes and brown hair."

This is a close-up variant rendering of a section of Miller's study of the Cromwell Farmhouse taken in August 1855, also in the Society's collection (1947.96). An oil of the same subject by the artist, also dated 1855, was in a private collection in 1950. The Cromwell farmhouse was erected about 1760 in the valley at the head of the now-obliterated Cromwell and McClellan avenues in the borough of the Bronx. The house was still standing in the early 1920s.

This is a rendering submitted by architects Charles Mettam and Edmund A. Burke of the Society's proposed first permanent home on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and East 11 Street. Described as an "Italian-Roman-Doric style of building," it was two stories high and built of sandstone. The building was erected in 1855-57 and served as the Society's home until 1908. At the right is the Second Avenue Baptist Church (Tabernacle Baptist Church) between 10th and 11th streets.

This portrayal of the Blizzard of 1888 was sketched from a window facing the East River in the Mutual Life Insurance Company Building on Nassau Street between Liberty and Cedar. Brooklyn Bridge is in the distance. The view was subsequently used as a Christmas card design by the artist.