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Title	Blithewood Swimming Pool
Creator	Hans Knopf Pix Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Date.Original	1955-1958
Publisher.Original	Hans Knopf Pix Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Description	In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the 'pool by the falls': "The pool was an integral part of summer life at Bard for 20 years after the college acquired it. A green canopy of overhanging trees shaded the surrounding wooden deck. Faculty sat in their lawn chairs, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin and tonics, and discussing politics and the latest college gossip. Children perched tentatively on the edge at the shallow end, carefully watched by parents because even the shallow end was pretty deep. Students did cannonballs off the diving board. My husband's friend put his kayak in the pool to practice rollovers. There was no chlorine smell, only the fresh. churned-up mist generated by the falls and the roar of the cascading water. It felt more like a swimming hole than a pool. My husband and his friends who grew up on and around the campus describe the pool as a sort of Garden of Eden. When he and I were first getting to know each other I had the sense that meeting the stream and the pool was almost as important as my meeting his parents." Back of photo identifies student Carolee Shneeman standing, left, with Shane Riorden, Business Manager.
Subject.LCSH	Swimming pools--New York (State)
Subject.TGM	Pools Waterfalls People
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	People Recreation Landscape & Nature
Format.Original	photograph : b&w ; 4 x 3 in. (10 x 7 cm.)
Type	Still Image
Resource Identifier	bc_arch.blith.040.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard College Architecture, Past and Present
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 collections.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ; pixels; no compression

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