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Living your best life in New York City and not anywhere near a brownstone. Photographs from an album kept by William Seton (a relative of Mother Seton) of life at Cragdon, his 51 acre estate in what is now Edenwald in the Bronx (then part of Eastchester).
Front cover of an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJThe Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsCoasting. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsRoses on the deserted Piazza. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsCroquet. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth, photographer. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsA Brilliant Spring Morning: Larch Budding. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsThe Piazza. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Thomas E. Jevons, photographer. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsAbove the Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsGroup with croquet mallets. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsBack of the Garden. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-detailsThe Brook Above the Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers.Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
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