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

[Moonlight from Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Moonlight from 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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[Moonlight from Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Moonlight spreads across the water at the dock of the Fort William Henry Hotel on Lake George, where the steamboat Sagamore is tied up beside the pier. The hotel took its name from the colonial fort at the lake's southern end, which was besieged and surrendered during the French and Indian War in 1757, an episode that gave the lake a lasting place in American history. By the early 1900s, resort hotels and steamboats carried summer visitors up and down the lake, and the Detroit Publishing Company produced views like this one for travelers and collectors. A night scene on a glass negative of this size required a long exposure and a steady hand.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Sagamore" on steamboat at dock. "G 8412" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500265. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMoonlight. Resorts. Steamboats. Piers & wharves.United States--New York (State)--Lake George.United States--New York (State)--George, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74673

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