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An Open camp, Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. – Historic Print

An Open camp, Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y., c[1909] — historic photograph
An Open camp, Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y., c[1909]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures An Open camp, Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few things say Adirondack camping like the open-sided shelter, or lean-to, pictured here at Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Camps of this kind gave sportsmen and vacationers a simple roof and a fire-facing wall while keeping them close to the lake and woods. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative around 1909, when the firm was producing large numbers of views of American scenery for travel promotion. The picture is a useful record of how summer camping in the region was practiced in the early 1900s.

Created / publishedc[1909]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 5552" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071239. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCamping.United States--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.United States--New York (State)--Raquette Lake (Lake)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72604

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