NY Adirondacks Bartletts 1879 vintage cabinet photo

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Up for auction is this wonderful vintage Adirondack photo of Bartletts. (this is no reproduction) The photo was taken soon after the civil war and shows the very beginnings of this historic hotel and portage to Upper Sranac Lake. Buyer to pay $3.00 S&H. Over the winter we will be selling some great Adirondack photos, prints and memorabilia that I have accumulated over the summer T will be some Seneca Ray Stoddard photos, real photo postcards of gas stations, hotels, railroads, other cabinet cards from photographers such as Balwin, Tousley, Robbin, scrapbooks and albums, scenic views of mountains and rivers and such. Some Adirondack towns views to watch for: Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Childwold, Lake Placid, Long Lake, Ausable Forks, Indian Lake, Piercefield, Lake George, Schroon Lake, Ticonderoga, Blue Mountain Lake, Keene Valley, Inlet, Raquette Lake, Old Forge, Big Moose, Warrensburg, Grant, Forestport, Paul Smiths, Newcomb, Benson Mines, Bloomingdale and Loon Lake area. Seneca Ray Stoddard (1843-1917) is best known for his photographs of the Adirondack Mountains , but he also was a cartographer, writer, poet, artist, traveler and lecturer. A sign painter by training, he turned to photography in his twenties. From his business base in Glens Falls he carried his cameras throughout the region, capturing the vistas and scenes of Adirondack life over a span of forty years. The thousands of photographs that he published document not only the Adirondack wilderness but also the human story of the region. Seneca Ray Stoddard was born at Wilton , Saratoga county, N.Y., May 13, 1844, and died at his home Glens Falls April 26, 1917. He had done more than any other person, probably, towards making the Adirondack region known to the outside world and to be admired and loved by nature lovers the world over; and in return, that region had been the means of making him known and admired by multitudes of people who never saw his face. By pen and pencil, by published books and spoken address he had for many years proclaimed the charm of the great north woods and he had his reward in seeing the Empire State assume the protection of this wilderness and the region become one of the nation's play grounds and sanitariums. His interest in this section of the State began when it was yet a genuine wilderness, and thenceforth he gave his best efforts to make its charms known. His published works include "Chart of Lake George," "In Mediterranean Lands," "Lake Champlain," "Map of Lake George," "Map of Adirondack Wilderness" and "Under the Midnight Sun," and a series of Guides to the Adirondacks published annually from 1873 to and including 1915. Mr. Stoddard's preparation for his life work was obtained like that of so many useful and even eminent Americans in our public schools. He had a keen, artistic sense which was cultivated and developed by the business, or "trade" which he learned that of an "interior decorator." In mature life he became something of a traveler, faring north as far as to Alaska on one trip, to Palestine on another and to the land of the midnight sun - Norway - on a third voyage. He was twice married, first to Miss Helen A. Potter and after her death to Miss Emily Doty, who survived him, as do also his two sons by the first wife, namely Charles H., a lawyer, and LeRoy R., a physician, both of New York City. read more

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