Two female students stand on the suspended walkway to the entrance of one of the Ravine Houses. It is winter, the trees are bare, and there is snow on the ground.
Boy campers sit on the rocks and in the trees of Cruger Island, then the location of the Ward boys' camp and now protected wetland of the Tivoli Bays reserve.
William H. Matthews, Chairman of the Ward Manor Committee and Director of the Fresh Air Camps, sits among the trees and brush. Mr. Matthews was the founder of Ward Manor as a haven for elderly people and city children, with the financial backing of...
Plates from two separate brochures depicting a commencement at St. Stephens, and a view of upper campus with Aspinwall and Ludlow-Willink Halls visible through the trees.
One of the Student Fire Department's two engines, a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank Ford equipped with 150 feet of hose. Elie Shneour, one of the founding members of the Fire Department, suggested that the fire truck be white, rather than red, to...
In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the 'pool by the falls': "The pool was an integral part of summer life at Bard for 20 years after the college acquired it. A green canopy of overhanging trees shaded the...
A photo of an event commemorating the 12th Anniversary of the Opening of Ward Manor on June, 11 1938. Eleanor Roosevelt is pictured with William H. Matthews in front a crowd of people.
This postcard depicts another angle of the Blithewood pool. Acquired by Bard with the Blithewood estate in 1951, the college maintained the pool until the early 1970s. In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the...
Taken in February of 1946, this view of the Maple Allee to Ward Manor shows slender young trees. Today many of the sugar maples have died, and the college has planted a second layer of oak trees to form a double allee.
Four men stand posed around the Bard College Fire Department Engine #2: one at the passenger door, one at the driver side door, and two at the front bumper. The truck contained a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank and 150 feet of hose. The stone building...
William H. Matthews and his wife, Helen Benson Matthews are pictured riding on a horse-drawn carriage in one of the open areas on the Ward Manor Estate
Emily Olssen Bleeker lived at in Cedar Hill Cottage as a child when her father, the Rev. William Whittingham Olssen taught at St. Stephen's in the late 19th. century. Her recently published memoir 'A New York Lady' includes a passage about living...
Warden Bernard Iddings Bell placed a great emphasis on athletics, and the variety of sports played, as well as the support for these teams improved greatly during his tenure. In 1922 the student publication "The Messenger" ran a brief article...
". . . Henry Beekman Livingston. . . used to plow about 1799 in his court uniform to show his contempt for George III. The miller's family makes butter and spins." (From: "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office" published by Civic Club of Rhinebeck,...
Panel 2 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office": "Before 1812. Irate Dr. Samuel Bard tries vainly to persuade Innkeeper Jabez Miller to change the name on his sign board from "Hyde Park" to almost...
From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" Panel 1(a): Some time between September 12 and 20 Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" may have anchored near Rhinecliff. A sailor chopping a tree is watched by Indians" who have burned a tree around its base....
Panel 1 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" Panel 1(a): Some time between September 12 and 20 Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" may have anchored near Rhinecliff. A sailor chopping a tree is watched by Indians" who...
Sixth Panel over Window in Rhinebeck Post Office. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" "Some outstanding Rhinebeck buildings--Foreground from left to right:--The School, designed and built in 1869 by Peter M. Fulton, burned in 1939; The...
