American Historical Ephemera and Photography

4 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. photograph reportedly showing photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard seated atop a large rock beside his stereoview camera, overlooking the Adirondacks. Credited to Stoddard lower right in negative (unmounted, toning, minor soiling, otherwise very good).

[With:] 6 landscape stereoviews by Stoddard, each with his Glens Falls, NY, imprint on mount recto. Two stereoviews titled in the negatives, and four stereoviews from Stoddard's "Walled Banks of the Ausable" series with titles printed on verso (toning, soiling, corner and edge wear to mounts).

Together, 7 photographs.

Stoddard, of Glens Fall, New York began photographing the natural scenery and "camps" of the Adirondacks in the mid 1860s and ten years later had amassed a collection of over 2000 negatives from which he produced countless stereographs that were marketed to local tourists. He was a tireless and prolific chronicler of this region, writing guidebooks and giving lectures on the natural beauty of the mountains and lakes. Late in his career he became alarmed at the abuses of timber companies and delivered countless lectures on conservation. He is credited by many as being instrumental in the passage of the act creating the Adirondack Park.