Lake Champlain, Westport, N.Y.: Northeast from Westport – Antique Wall Art
(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 Lake Champlain, Westport, N.Y.: Northeast from Westport. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lake Champlain, Westport, N.Y.: Northeast from Westport
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Looking northeast from the village of Westport on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, this view shows a stretch of New York landscape that drew summer travelers in the late 1880s. The photographer, Seneca Ray Stoddard, was known for documenting the Adirondacks and the lake country of northern New York, and he sold his numbered views to visitors as souvenirs. The subject tracings on the original caption card point to hotels in Westport, which suggests the lakeside village was already a stop for tourists by 1889. Stoddard's work from this period offers a useful record of how the shoreline looked before later development.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by Seneca Ray Stoddard. No. 556. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hotels...--NY--Westport--1889; NY--Westport--1889; NY--Champlain, Lake...--1889; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147240 |
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