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[Fort William Henry Hotel, the shore road, Lake George, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Fort William Henry Hotel, the shore road, Lake George, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Fort William Henry Hotel, the shore road, 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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[Fort William Henry Hotel, the shore road, Lake George, N.Y.]

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Fort William Henry Hotel, pictured here from the shore road, stood on the western shore of Lake George, close to the site of the British fort that was besieged and surrendered to the French in 1757. James Fenimore Cooper's novel *The Last of the Mohicans* drew on that battle, and by the early 1900s the lake was a fashionable summer destination for travelers arriving by rail and steamboat. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many of these views for railroad and resort promotion, recorded the hotel and its grounds during this boom in tourism.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8476" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500254. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResorts. Lakes & ponds. Streets.United States--New York (State)--Lake George.United States--New York (State)--George, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74662

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