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Douglas Road, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. – Historic Print

Douglas Road, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y., c1909. — historic photograph
Douglas Road, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y., c1909.. Historic photograph from the Adirondacks 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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Douglas Road, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Douglas Road, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.

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Douglas Road runs through the Saranac Lake country in the Adirondacks, and this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, made around 1909, captures a rural road edged by forest with the mountains rising beyond it. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of views of American scenery and resorts in the early twentieth century, made this picture, and its catalog number places it in the firm's extensive commercial output. The Adirondacks had drawn wealthy summer visitors and health seekers to the Saranac Lakes since the late nineteenth century, so roads like this one carried the traffic that linked lodges, camps and villages to the lakes.

Created / publishedc1909.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesProbably near Upper Saranac Lake. G 5481" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071235. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRoads. Mountains. Lakes & ponds. Forests.United States--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.United States--New York (State)--Saranac Lakes.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72600

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