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Avalanche Lake, Adirondacks / S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art

Avalanche Lake, Adirondacks / S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y., c1888. — historic photograph
Avalanche Lake, Adirondacks / S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y., c1888.. Historic photograph from the Adirondacks collection.

(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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A window into the past: Avalanche Lake, Adirondacks / S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Avalanche Lake sits in a narrow, steep-walled gorge in the High Peaks region, and this view turns the camera toward the rock rather than the water, which is what makes the subject feel so enclosed. The print was made around 1888 by S.R. Stoddard, a photographer based in Glens Falls, New York, who sold views of the Adirondacks to summer visitors and tourists arriving by rail. It appears as No. 55 in a published series of Adirondack views from about 1889, a format that helped bring the region's wilderness scenery to people who would never make the trek themselves.

Created / publishedc1888.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1890.
NotesIn: Adirondack views, c1889. No. 55.
SubjectsLakes & ponds--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains--1880-1890. Canyons--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168253

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