The Thousand Islands via New York Central & Hudson River RR – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Thousand Islands via New York Central & Hudson River RR. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Thousand Islands via New York Central & Hudson River RR
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Few places were promoted as heavily in the 1890s as the Thousand Islands, the cluster of rocky islands in the St. Lawrence River where it flows out of Lake Ontario, and this print was made to sell that scenery to travelers. Issued around 1893 by the Matthews-Northrup Company of Buffalo, it belongs to the numbered Four Track Series of illustrated pamphlets that the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad used to advertise its routes. Its focus on fishing and summer tourism reflects how the railroad carried city dwellers from the Hudson Valley and beyond to the river resorts, where anglers and vacationers could spend their summers on the water.
| Created / published | Buffalo, N.Y. : The Matthews-Northrup Co, c1893. |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Genre | Pamphlets 1890-1900.Line photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Four track series, No. 10. In collection: Illustrated time tables and travel pamphlets. |
| Subjects | New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company--Public relations--1890-1900. Fishing--Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.)--1890-1900. Tourism--Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 604 × 1,177 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218098 |
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