Name/Title
Bailiwick [porch view of Cayuga Lake, west shore]Entry/Object ID
1987.1.15Description
This view is unique in that the steps that lead from the grand front porch have been removed and the exit bricked over.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Glass Plate NegativesSubject Place
Location
Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways Camp ComstockCity
Ithaca, New York, USAContinent
North AmericaContext
Bailiwick was a place of inspiration and rest for Liberty Hyde Bailey during some of his busiest years as founding Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, and into his retirement. He planted six or more orchards (specializing in apples, but also pears, peaches, plums, cherries, nectarines, melocotons), a vineyard, and several various crop fields (potatoes, beans, turnips, buckwheat, raspberries, muskmelons, squash, etc), and raised chickens and hogs, on the original farm property (Liberty Hyde Bailey Papers, #21-2-3342, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library).
As of 2019, a number of the trees from his orchards were still bearing fruit, on the Camp Comstock property, and others might remain in people's yards farther inland. The Bailey family's cottage still stands on the property and is rented out year-round.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Liberty Hyde BaileyRole
PhotographerDate made
circa 1900