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This photograph was taken in 1910.

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This photograph was taken in 1883.

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This photograph was taken in 1949.

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This photograph was taken in 1910.

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Thomas Brooks was the first African-American to serve as a police officer in Yonkers and Westchester County. He joined the Yonkers Police Department in 1925.

This photograph of Thomas Brooks was taken in 1930.

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This a photograph of patrol man Thomas Beairsto in Getty Square close St. John's Church in the year 1900.

alex strohmayer and standford bernstein.jpg
Stanford is on the left; Alex is on the right.

stan bernstein re-edit.mp3
Stan talks about his service with 82nd Seabees on islands in the Pacific such as Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Okinawa. The other voice towards the end of the interview is Alex Strohmayer's.

alex strohmayer.mp3
Alex talks being a B-17 bomber pilot with the 381st Bomb Group. When Alex says "ship", he is referring to an aircraft.

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This was a recreation of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
At this attraction actors playing firefighters and members of the audience (including children) helped "put out" the fire.
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