This is copy of a letter from President Reamer Kline dated March 17, 1967 thanking Paul Hartzell for his gift of this photograph album to Bard College. President Kline makes reference to its value to future chroniclers of the college history--...
Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 6. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office," published by Town of Hyde Park Historical Society: In the late 1780s. Dr. John Bard and Dr. Samuel Bard examine their new Italian melons, fertilized with...
Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 7. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "The Bard Hosack Farm with the Red House (built 1764 by Dr. John Bard, located north of St. James Church, model for the present Post Office). Merino sheep imported to...
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
Women; Correspondence; Diseases; Medicine; Health care;
Twelve days after the death of Leah's baby Mary, Leah has become quite feeble. Thomas writes, "I must say that I have not
all along entertained in my own mind any doubt as to her recovery." Leah has been treated with cod liver oil which appeared to...
Certification, written in French in 1709, recognizing an earlier contract made in 1689 between Jean Cottin and the Village of New Paltz concerning land given to Cottin in compensation for his services as a schoolmaster.
A large two-story brick building. The Foresters of America was a fraternal, benevolent order for white males of good character between the ages of eighteen and fifty.
