40 stereographs (photographic prints) : albumen, some col.; 86x174mm or smaller.
Summary
Views of Orange, N.J., including views of a church, a rustic summer house built of limbs, a view in the Orange Mts. showing a bridge crossing a creek, the entrance gate to Llewellyn Park and a waterfall; views of homes in Llewellyn Park, including that of the founder, Llewellyn S. Haskell, called the Eagle's Eyrie, on Eagle Rock, which was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis as were some of the other homes in Llewellyn Park pictured. Other houses range in style from gothic cottages to Italian style villas, and many are shown with people posing in front, on lawns or porches, or seated in rustic furniture. Includes a view of a summer house built high above the ground, with stairs leading up and benches underneath. Women wear crinolines and large hats, men in long jackets, some in top hats, some in flat wide-brimmed hats. Also includes view of two boys sitting in a garden, one in a settee of wrought iron or other material made to look like limbs is holding lilacs, the other, sitting in a small wheelbarrow has lilacs in his hat.