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The Mansion at Yaddo, home of Spencer Trask, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

The Mansion at Yaddo, home of Spencer Trask, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., c[between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
The Mansion at Yaddo, home of Spencer Trask, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., c[between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Saratoga 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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The Mansion at Yaddo, home of Spencer Trask, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Yaddo, the estate that Spencer Trask, a New York banker and financier, and his wife Katrina built on the outskirts of Saratoga Springs, sits behind its formal grounds in this view. Trask died in 1909, and Katrina Trask later turned the property into an artists' retreat, a use that continues today. The picture is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, which made many views of American towns, resorts and country houses around 1900 to 1910. It shows how a wealthy family's summer and country seat looked just before its later life as a place for writers and artists began.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 6416" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071556. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTrask, Spencer,--1844-1909--Homes & haunts. Dwellings. Estates.United States--New York (State)--Saratoga Springs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72890

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