This image is the only known photograph of the interior of the Bard Home. Taken after Margaret Bard's death, the house was not regularly occupied by John Bard and his second wife Annie Belcher at this time. The room appears to be well appointed and...
Photograph identified as follows: "Bard's Folly." Written and produced by Harvey Fite in Orient Theater (1935), this is a skit about John Bard reluctantly giving his consent to having a college and enrolling the first student. Cast (from left to...
Horses; Carriages & coaches; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water); Utility poles;
Postcard showing the Bight in Grandview. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or "a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007). This postcard is postmarked March 8, 1905. It was sent...
The Brookside estate owned by Edgar Tilton in Suffern, N.Y. There is handwriting along the bottom of the postcard: "Our house. It snowed again yesterday, but we are still hoping for spring. ?" The messages are dated March 20, 1907.
Fite's sculpture "Flame" stood at the center of his sculptural landscape prior to Fite's decision to replace this with the enormous uncarved monolith which stands on the site today.
Shown here as the girls dormitory known as "The Homestead", this house was later purchased and renovated by Saul Bellow. The house was subsequently purchased by Bard College for faculty housing (during which time it was known as "Bellows' House"),...
A crowd at the launching of the "Palisades." In the center of the crowd is Harry Brearley, the writer who lived in house #28, 75 Washington Spring Road.
The launching of the "Palisades." A picture of the ship itself, named the "Palisades" because Palisades bought so many Liberty Loans during World War I.
The "S" shaped curve of a road, with a stone cliff climbing up on the left and a stone wall curving along the right. There is a sign on the wall on the right. Storm King Highway, also called Route 218, met with major opposition, but was blasted...
