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

[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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Fort William Henry Hotel stood on the shore of Lake George in New York's Adirondack foothills, on or near the site of the 18th-century British fort of the same name. That fort was besieged by the French under Montcalm in 1757, and the surrender that followed led to a massacre of British soldiers and civilians, an episode later dramatized in James Fenimore Cooper's *The Last of the Mohicans*. By the early 1900s the lake had become a popular summer destination, reached by rail and steamboat, and resort hotels like this one catered to visitors drawn by the scenery and the history. This view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American resorts and landmarks for travel promotion.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5464" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036883. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds. Hotels. Resorts.United States--New York (State)--George, Lake.United States--New York (State)--Lake George.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68214

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