April 17, 2024
Original Seneca Ray Stoddard Albumen Photograph Raquette Lake Mouth Marion River
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Seneca Ray Stoddard Original albumen print of Raquette Lake, mouth of Marion River in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. It is an 1880's albumen print mounted on cardboard. Signed lower right of photograph. It measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and is in very good condition with expected toning, wear, and minor stains. Please see photos and feel free to contact me with any questions when determining condition. Stoddard was born at Wilton , in Saratoga County, New York , May 13, 1844. He was largely self-taught. He left home at 16 and got work painting ornamental freight cars and decorative scenes in passenger cars. He started in photography at age 20, initially in Glens Falls and later throughout the Adirondacks. He published a guide to Saratoga Springs followed by Lake George - Luzerne - Schroon Lake in 1873, and revised each of the subsequent five years. In 1878 the guide was expanded to Lake George and Lake Champlain He was best known for his guidebook, The Adirondacks: Illustrated , published in 1873, revised and reprinted through 1914, and the first tourist map of the Adirondacks, published in 1874. In 1878, Stoddard produced a topographical survey of the Adirondacks. In 1882 Stoddard invented " a camera attachment for use in dry-plate photography and to perfect the -magnesium flash- for taking night photographs. "[1] In early 1892,
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