Typewritten note found in "Riding High: America in the Cold War," from the author, Carl Solberg (Columbia University), acknowledging Hannah Arendt's influence and requesting comments.
The twelve members of the Bard College Eulexian Society of 1904 sit on the grass in front of The Church of the Holy Innocents displaying the Eulexian banner. The Eulexian Society was a non-ritualistic literary fraternity established in 1860. The...
Panel 5 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "July 24, 1835. Dr. David Hosack and Miss Harriet Martineau drive a gig past Bard's Rock where the crew of a whaler roll casks of spring water to their ship. Dr....
Hector St. John (Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur) formally sells his Pine Hill Farm, which he bought in 1769, to Thomas Moffatt.
During the American Revolution, he refused to take up arms against the British. Therefore, he was suspected of...
Clippings; History; Historical societies; Historians; Land grants; Taverns (Inns);
Newspaper clipping reporting on a Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct meeting featuring Frank Durland’s paper on the importance of Chester in history. Apparently, this was clipped from Dr. Wesley Wait's copy of the newspaper.
Half of the holiday card sent in 1960 by the college. The left edge indicates where the card was torn, implying that it opened on the right edge with a greeting inside. All that remains is the front of the card at this time.
The front cover of Mary Isabella Forsyth's book titled "Beginnings of New York: Kingston the first state capital". There is a drawing of a vessel on a body of water.
""The History of Rockland County was originally published in 1884 as a history of Rockland from the Native Americans to the late 19th Century. The following excerpt is about the building of the Nyack Turnpike
"My Tippoo" plate. Features image of boy and dog with the following verse: "Then as he grew in strength and size. Who watched with eager whine my eyes. And seemed my every thought to prize. MY TIPPOO." Plate design features raised floral border...
"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.
