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[Lake Placid and Whiteface Mountain, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Lake Placid and Whiteface Mountain, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Lake Placid and Whiteface Mountain, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Lake Placid and Whiteface Mountain, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.]

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Whiteface Mountain, rising above the water at Lake Placid, anchors this view of the central Adirondacks in upstate New York. The glass negative was made between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document resorts, towns, and scenery for sale as views and postcards. By then Lake Placid was a popular summer retreat drawing visitors to its lake and surrounding peaks, and it would later host the 1932 Winter Olympics. Its 8 by 10 inch format gives the lake and mountain a sharp, detailed clarity.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. WHJ 870" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032928. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds. Mountains.United States--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.United States--New York (State)--Placid, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66338

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