[Midwinter carnival, the ice fortress after the thaw, 1909, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y.] – Historic Print
![[Midwinter carnival, the ice fortress after the thaw, 1909, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y.], [1909] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4ac85cb08488-L.webp)
(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: [Midwinter carnival, the ice fortress after the thaw, 1909, Upper Saranac Lake, 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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[Midwinter carnival, the ice fortress after the thaw, 1909, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y.]
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Built on the frozen surface of Upper Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, this ice fortress was part of a midwinter carnival in 1909, when lake towns in the region turned their frozen water into winter gathering places. Ice palaces and castles like this were a popular feature of northern New York winter festivals in the early twentieth century, often drawing crowds for skating, sleigh rides and evening events. The image is a glass plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for recording American scenery and small towns, so it preserves both the scale of the structure and the open, snowbound landscape around it.
| Created / published | [1909] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 5709" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036976. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Festivals. Ice sculpture. Winter.United States--New York (State)--Saranac Lakes. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-68281 |
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