"In every Man's Life we may need some lesson. What may be read in mine? ...Life is...A day's labor...on God's earth, under the sun and the stars with other laborers, where we may think and sing and rejoice as we work." - letterpress caption from...
Color photo postcard of Slabsides, taken from the back of the cabin. "SLABSIDES / NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK / BURROUGHS DRIVE / WEST PARK, NEW YORK 12493 / This cabin was built by the poet-naturalist John Burroughs in 1895 and used by him in the...
John Burroughs holding two woodchucks on the steps of the porch of his Woodchuck Lodge. "I call my place Woodchuck Lodge, as I tell my friends, because we are beleagured by these rodents" - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
Colorized photo postcard of John Burroughs sitting on the steps of his cabin Slabsides. This postcard was mailed with a one cent stamp on March 21, 1909; it is post stamped March 22. The hand-written message reads: "Miss Elizabeth Russel;...
"The cabin near West park, New York, Built by the naturalist John Burroughs, A National Historic Landmark" - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
"I was not born out of time, but in good time. The men I seemed to need most were nearly all my contemporaries." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
Photograph of Woodchuck Lodge with person standing on porch. "This boon is mine when I go to my little gray farmhouse...The peace of the hills is about me and upon me..." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
John Burroughs sitting in a rocking chair on a porch at Woodchuck Lodge. Hand crafted writing table is visible in background. "To sit on one's rustic porch...is to get a taste of the peace and comfort of the summer hills" - letterpress caption from...
"On this hearth in Slabsides, near West Park, N.Y., the naturalist John Burroughs cooked meals for guests, among whom were Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and other celebrities." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
Color photo of Slabsides in the autumn showing the back and side of the cabin with three people siting on the porch steps. "Slabsides, near West Park., N.Y., the woodland retreat of the naturalist John Burroughs, is maintained as a memorial and...
"Woodchuck Lodge, summer home of naturalist John Burroughs at Roxbury, N.Y., a National Historic Landmark" - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
"The writing desk in SLABSIDES, near West Park, N.Y., where John Burroughs wrote some of his famous nature books. The cabin is kept as a memorial to him." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
