Oldest House in Sullivan County, N.Y.
This vintage Catskills postcard depicts the oldest house in Sullivan County, New York. The postcard was published by photographer Otto Hillig located at Liberty, New York. The postcard was mailed in 1950 from Parksville, New York.
Otto Hillig can be considered one of the great photographers in Catskills history. Arriving from Germany in the United States as a poor teenage immigrant he took on a series of odd jobs before developing a prosperous photography business at his adopted hometown in the village of Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. He operated a well-regarded portrait studio in the village, extensively photographed the landscapes of the region and was considered an earlier pioneer of aerial photography.
