Page four of a newspaper published by the Community Service Society (formerly the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor) about radio personality Wythe Williams' visit to Ward Manor in 1941.
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...
Twenty-one girl campers sit in and on a station wagon parked in a field on the Ward Manor property. Ellen Flynn Matthews, one of the camp counselors and the wife of Bruce Matthews, William H. Matthews' son, sits at the driver's seat.
Two men sitting in horse-drawn buggy, in front of the Madalin Hotel. An article in the Poughkeepsie Sunday New Yorker, dated Sunday, June 18th, 1950, uses this image and identifies the driver as Patrick H. Morey, the passenger as John Carpenter,...
Caption on the back of the photo reads "First built in 1846 as a store at the corner of Montgomery St. and Broadway, this building was later changed to the Potts Hotel, owned by P.H. Morey. It then became the Elting's Store, and later an apartment...
A letter written by John Bard in response to a letter sent by Trinity Church vestry members James Starr Clark, John H. Hagar, and Henry S. Attwater. Bard is gracious in his response, and he encourages Clark to continue the work of the parish...
"A weekly variety show of WXBC broadcast from the stage of the college." (from verso of similar photograph) Students are identified as Flicker, Joel H. Fields '53, Peter Hess Stone '51, Jordan King, Andrew Pierson Strong, Jr., '51, Whitney F....
Rosalie Bard, 18, stands for a formal portrait. She was the fourth child of John and Margaret Bard, and was only seven years old when her mother died. She married Charles Moran in 1891.
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.
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
