Name/Title
Bailiwick [group on front steps]Entry/Object ID
1987.1.8Description
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
Glass Plate NegativesSubject
Bailiwick, Bailey Family, ColleaguesSubject Person or Organization
Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, Anna Botsford Comstock, B.S, L.H.D.Subject Place
City
Ithaca, New York, USAContinent
North AmericaLocation
Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways Camp ComstockContext
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 CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Liberty Hyde BaileyRole
PhotographerDate made
circa 1900