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.
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...
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...
Photograph of Mark Roe sitting on the stone wall in front of Daniel Crommelin's Gray Court Plantation Mansion, posing as he did in 1938 for the photograph taken by his grandfather, Hamlet S. Roe, published in "Old Orange houses," by Mildred Parker...
Album/folio of ten photos of Chester scenes.
Chester High School on Oakland Avenue, called University Heights.
Lower left corner marked: "3rd Grade"
Bottom: "Chester Academy"
"A bit of High St., Chester, N.Y."
Right house: "Thompson's"
"Along...
This document, filed with the Orange County Clerk, defines the boundaries of Hazzard J. Manning's 7 1/2 acre lot located on the road leading from Chester to Oxford, bounded by the farms of David G. Drake and the late Oliver Smith.
Textile industry; Mills; Men; Women; Children; Photographic prints
35 men, women, and children outside the Kinderhook Knitting Mill. A high wheel bicycle is in the center of the image. Written on front of image: "My father Mike L. Hickey [with an arrow pointing to the second man from left] Kinderhook Knitting...
