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  • Collection: Before Bard: A Sense of Place

Blithewood Gatehouse

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The octagonal gatehouse is the oldest building on Bard's campus.

Blithewood Swimming Pool

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This postcard depicts another angle of the Blithewood pool. Acquired by Bard with the Blithewood estate in 1951, the college maintained the pool until the early 1970s. In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about theā€¦

Catskill Mountain House: The Four Elements

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Painting by Thomas Cole, member of Hudson River School, to illustrate a depiction of sublimity in the age of American Romanticism

Cayambe

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Oil sketch of Ecuadoran landscape