Articles by 'Robert L. Matthews'
Editor’s Note: Finding an email from Robert Matthews is always a delight. This one started with his suggesti...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Editor’s Note: Robert Matthew, from Fishers Landing, NY, suggested we create a Did You Know? section, for it...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Last summer I read Captain Henry Johnston’s 1937 book, The Thousand Islands of the St Lawrence River with Descriptions o...
by: Robert L. Matthews
How would you like to take a train ride to the Thousand Islands?
by: Robert L. Matthews
The pictures you are about see can be traced back to A. C. McIntyre, but they are not photographs as we know them today....
by: Robert L. Matthews
How would you like to visit some Thousand Island homes and cottages as they were one hundred and thirty years ag...
by: Robert L. Matthews
These Thousand Island pictures, taken over one hundred twenty five years ago, are a treasure to be shared.
They are sca...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Who? George Rockwell? Never heard of him! No, it doesn’t surprise me as he flew under my radar for a while.
Let me star...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Early postcard scenes of the Canadian Thousand Islands published by the Detroit Photographic Co.
by: Robert L. Matthews
If you collect Thousand Islands memorabilia, my guess is that your first purchase might have been a postcard.
by: Robert L. Matthews
The Wheelock family began selling china in Wisconsin..
by: Robert L. Matthews
I had no idea as to its value and asked the dealer the price. She held up two fingers but did she mean two dollars, twenty dollars or two hundred dollars?
by: Robert L. Matthews
When my wife, Prudence, and I began to collect, we didn’t understand or recognize the value of glass and consequently le...
by: Robert L. Matthews
June 1904 marked the beginning of the Gold Cup Races, considered power boat racing’s ultimate contest in North America a...
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What a thrill it was when a package arrived recently from a man I had never met, Bill Schroeder. The envelope contained ...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Women stayed in their own camp from five o’clock in the afternoon ...
by: Robert L. Matthews
“Camp Grindstone,” written by Henry Eckford and illustrated by William Allen Rogers, appeared in the August 1885 issue o...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Sightseeing flights over the islands were very popular. People loved to do the unusual, talk about it and maybe get their names in the paper.
by: Robert L. Matthews
For the past three months, Robert L. Matthews has given our readers a unique peek at those long forgotten illustrators w...
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Charles S. Graham was an itinerant, self taught sketch artist born 1852 in Illinois.
by: Robert L. Matthews
In the February issue of Thousand Islands Life Magazine we introduced Howard Pyle, one of North America’s premier illust...
by: Robert L. Matthews
The second in a series on illustrators of the Thousand Islands.
by: Robert L. Matthews
Note: See the complementary Article about Frank H. Taylor in this issue: Nancy L. Gustke’s “The Special Artis...
by: Robert L. Matthews
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