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[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.]

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The Fort William Henry Hotel stood on Lake George on ground tied to a notorious episode of the French and Indian War. The British fort there was besieged by French forces under the Marquis de Montcalm in 1757, and the attack on the garrison as it withdrew became the basis for James Fenimore Cooper's account in *The Last of the Mohicans*. By the early 1900s the lake was a popular summer destination for travelers arriving by rail and steamboat, and the hotel catered to that trade. The Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded resorts, towns and scenery across the country for commercial use, made this glass negative.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8434" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500255. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResorts. Hotels.United States--New York (State)--Lake George.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74663

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