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  • Collection: Before Bard: A Sense of Place

Italian Landscape

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Framed oil painting of a landscape in Italy

Cayambe

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Oil sketch of Ecuadoran landscape

The View of Cruger's Island From Miramonte

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Framed oil painting of the landscape as viewed from Miramonte

Obituary of Mrs. Sylvina Van Benthuysen

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newspaper print and handwriting

"View Over Cruger's Island"

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Photograph of oil sketch on board of a view looking towards Cruger's Island from an area that would today be the Ward Manor area of Bard College campus. Five figures are harvesting hay onto an oxcart, while a sixth man on horse observes. Sail…

Lease fragment, land of Pieter Van Benthuysen

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Photo of hand written fragment of an indenture, partial date of 1747?, between Pieter Van Benthuysen and Johannis [sic] Staet, of Dutchess County, specifying a annual rent of [sum missing]

Wilderstein_2

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Wilderstein Estate, main building