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Title	Margaret Johnston Bard
Creator	D.S. Peirce, Photographer
Date.Original	1861?-1864?
Publisher.Original	D.S. Peirce, Photographer
Description	Margaret Johnston Bard poses for a formal portrait, wearing a long velvet dress. Though few of her personal papers remain, Margaret Bard was known for her intelligence and religious devotion. Her family fortune brought wealth to John Bard through their marriage in 1849, and her dedication to religious and social causes was clearly a spur to the legacy of philanthropic activity for which the Bard name is remembered. She made a personal appeal to James Starr Clark to build Trinity Church and School in neighboring Tivoli (then Myersville)--a cause to which he subsequently devoted almost three decades of his life. Her name is also included among the first Board of Trustees for St. Stephen's College. This was an unusual role for a woman in 1860, and it stands as a testament to her own gifts, as well as to the strength of her partnership with John Bard. She is memorialized by a headstone in the Bard cemetery, and by St. Margaret's Well, which stands next to the Chapel of Holy Innocents, erected a year after her death in 1875.
Subject.TGM	Philanthropists
Personal Name	Bard, Margaret Johnston, 1825-1875
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	People
Format.Original	Photograph ; 4 x 2.5 in. (10 x 5.5 cm.)
Type	Still Image
Source	Bard Family Papers, box 2, folder 1.
Resource Identifier	bc_bfpa.003.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2006
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard - Tivoli History Collection Bard Family Papers
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ;

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