Bailiwick [group on front steps]

Name/Title

Bailiwick [group on front steps]

Entry/Object ID

1987.1.129

Description

Featured: Anna Botsford Comstock (second row from the top, second to the left) and Ethel Bailey (bottom row, second to the left). This is the only known photo of Anna Botsford Comstock at the future site that bears her name, Camp Comstock.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Kodak Velox Paper Print

Subject

Bailiwick, Bailey Family, Colleagues

Subject Person or Organization

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, Anna Botsford Comstock, B.S, L.H.D.

Subject Place

City

Ithaca, New York, USA

Continent

North America

Location

Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways Camp Comstock

Context

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.

Collection

Dr. Peter Hyypio Collection

Category

Tier 2

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Role

Photographer

Date made

circa 1900

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

See entry 1987.1.8

Web Links and URLs

Informal Tour of Bailiwick