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[Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y.], [1906?]. Historic photograph from the Lake George 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y.]

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Silver Bay on the western shore of Lake George is the setting here, with the hotel and its landing photographed from Slim Point, a vantage that puts the water and the surrounding mountains in the same frame. The Silver Bay Hotel was a resort building of the kind that drew summer visitors to the Adirondack lakes in the early twentieth century, when rail and steamboat service made the region a popular retreat. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely and sold views of hotels, lakes and scenic spots to tourists and promoters. Its 8 x 10 inch glass negative records the scene as it looked around 1906, a time when lakeside resorts like this one were at the height of their appeal.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 3558" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034468. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Lakes & ponds. Mountains.United States--New York (State)--George, Lake.United States--New York (State)--Silver Bay.United States--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67409

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