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Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: West from Lake House – Historic Reproduction

Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: West from Lake House, c1889. — historic photograph
Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: West from Lake House, c1889.. 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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A window into the past: Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: West from Lake House, 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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Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: West from Lake House

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Taken looking west from the Lake House on the shore of Blue Mountain Lake, this view shows the water as summer visitors of the late 1880s would have seen it. Seneca Ray Stoddard, a Glens Falls photographer who documented the Adirondacks for tourists, sold such scenes as numbered card views, and this one is catalogued as No. 588. The record rests on an old caption card, and its notes mention boats and children, though those details remain unverified. As railroads and steamers brought more visitors to the region, views like this helped shape how the public imagined its lakes and mountains.

Created / publishedc1889.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by S.R. Stoddard. No. 588. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Children; Boats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148042

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