Yewell, silvery stencil-work by Samuel Colman and embroideries by Candace Wheeler.

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Samuel Colman's watercolor "Wharf at Yonkers" (c.1869-70) takes a slightly different tack, his low viewpoint emphasizing the open sky and the broad stretch of Hudson waterway framed by the Palisades and the North Yonkers hills.

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In the summer of 1939, King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) visit F.

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