Title	1907: Harbor Home, Sag Harbor, NY
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	1920?
Decade	1900s
Commentary	This photograph from a postcard, ca. 1920, shows Harbor Home, Olivia Sage's summer retreat at Sag Harbor, Long Island, around 1900. Olivia bought this columned mansion, also called the Huntting House, after she was widowed. It had belonged to a wealthy merchant with interests in whaling. More than just a summer place out of the city, Sag Harbor loomed large in Olivia's imagination. It was where her grandfather, John Jermain, had settled and where her mother went to school. Genealogists for hire like Henry Whittemore, who compiled a volume on the Sage and Slocum families published in 1908, helped "transform the colonial past into a flattering prelude to the present" and Sag Harbor was very much a part of that narrative of ascent. Olivia lived there during every visit to Sag Harbor between 1908 and 1912. After she quarreled with the city fathers, she no longer visited but spent her summers in Lawrence, Long Island, instead. [Commentary written by Dr. Ruth Crocker]
Item Description	This image is a photograph of Harbor Home, the Sag Harbor summer home of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage between 1908 and 1912. The photograph shows a 2-3 story house with columned porticoes on the front and side. Large trees surround the house, and there is a gated fence between the grounds and the sidewalk in front of the house. [Item Description created by Auburn University Libraries]
File Name	220.tif
Repository	County of Nassau, New York, Department of Parks, Recreation & Museums, Division of Museum Services
Rights	This image is not the property of the Auburn University Libraries. Anyone wishing to use this image must contact the repository listed above for permission.
Digital Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Mini-Collections	Widowhood Family members Ideals, beliefs, self-representation