Abraham Strauss House Thousand Island, New York, 1908 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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: Abraham Strauss House Thousand Island, New York, 1908, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View from Abraham Strauss House to light house
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Abraham Strauss House Thousand Island, New York, 1908
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In 1908, the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River in northern New York were a well-known summer retreat for wealthy families from New York City and other eastern cities. Alexandria Bay, Clayton, and Cape Vincent served as the main landings, where steamboats carried vacationers among the islands and linked the resort colony to the rail lines that ran north from the Great Lakes and the Hudson Valley. The river's islands had drawn large summer "cottages" and hotels since the 1870s, and by the early 1900s the fashion was for private estates, yacht clubs, and regattas. George Boldt's grand castle on Heart Island, begun around 1900, had been abandoned unfinished in 1904, a reminder of how quickly fortunes could shift in the resort boom. Summer residents of this house would have known the region chiefly for its boating, social calendar, and the steady traffic of passenger steamers on the river.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | r.w. johnston studios |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,204 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View from Abraham Strauss House to light house |
| Reference | NY 1908 Abraham Strauss House Thousand Island |
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