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1867 Martin (Gilson Property)

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Cornelia Gilson Deed, 1895

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Deed referring to Cornelia’s inheritance from Alexander Gilson. “Between Cornelia Gilson of Red Hook N.Y. (the sole and only heir at law and next of kin) of Alexander Gilson late of Red Hook, deceased.”

Notice of Montgomery Place Nursery Closure, 1885

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Workers at the Montgomery Place Conservatory (detail)

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Albumen stereoscope print, August 1861. Bard College, Montgomery Place Collection

The American Florist, Vol. 4, No. 96 (August 1, 1889), 590.

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“A reader's praise for Begonia Gilsoni."

The Century Plant

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Janet Montgomery buys “a Negro wench named Sarah” from John Feller, 1804.

Bill of sale for Susan, “a female Negro slave,” from Johannes Klum to Janet Montgomery, November 15, 1808.

Rebecca Radcliff sells her “Black female slave” and her male child named Alexander, “aged about two years,” to Janet Montgomery, 1810.

Newspaper notice for runaway slave Sam placed by Gilbert Livingston, Janet’s cousin, July 1804.

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View of Bard Farm, 2012

View of the Bard Farm taken from the South, September 2012