Aspinwall Dormitory, the oldest building on main campus, from the northwest. The photograph appears to have been taken some time after the construction of the hall, but before Stone Row was built in 1884.
Bard Hall from the east. A car is parked in front of the building; St. Margaret's Well stands in the field to the left. Built in 1852 by John and Margaret Bard, this building functioned as the original chapel, and was immediately established as a...
Bard Hall, the College's oldest building (built in 1852), from the south. John and Margaret Bard built this as the original chapel, and a parish school was immediately established for neighborhood children.
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.
A bus holding some of the elderly residents of Ward Manor sits in front of the entrance to Manor House, one of the two large buildings in which members lived, now a dormitory for Bard College students.
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.
The swimming pool that once lay on Ward Manor property. Visitors and swimmers crowd around the water's edge and in the shade of the pool house. A woman standing on the diving board appears to deliver a speech.
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...
