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

[N.Y., Lake George from Fort William Henry Hotel], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[N.Y., Lake George from Fort William Henry Hotel], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[N.Y., Lake George from Fort William Henry Hotel]

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Two glass negatives, printed as a pair, record a wide view of Lake George taken from the Fort William Henry Hotel at the lake's southern end. The hotel stood near the ruins of the British fort that the French captured in 1757, a site James Fenimore Cooper later made famous in *The Last of the Mohicans*. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold scenic views to tourists and travel promoters in the early 1900s, produced many landscapes of the region. Joining two plates allowed the photographer to capture the broad sweep of water and shoreline that one frame could not hold.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19052, 19051. Label on left negative: 2122; label on right negative: 2123. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037070. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsLakes & ponds.United States--New York (State)--George, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68429

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