Seneca Ray Stoddard
In the Adirondacks

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • In the Adirondacks
Date1880s
PlaceNew York, United States
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Mount: 7 × 9 in. (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Barry Schneider in honor of his son-in-law, Geoff Sahs, at "One Great Night in November, 1999"
Object number99.488
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

For 40 years, Seneca Ray Stoddard produced guidebooks,
maps, drawings, paintings, and photographs detailing the life and landscape of
the Adirondack Mountain region in upstate New York. Stoddard’s photographs,
shown to the legislature in 1892, helped win approval of a clause in the New
York State constitution that forest preserves such as Adirondack Park should
remain “forever wild.”





 



Although his thousands of photographs provided an accurate
evocation of the Adirondack life, the limitations of the young medium of photography
would have meant that scenes such as this one, which seems like a spontaneous
snapshot, would in fact have been carefully staged.




Provenance[Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Sports: Leisure-Time and Professional," at the Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, Texas, from May 30 to September 4, 2001 (LN:2001.31).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in white, recto, lower edge: "49. 'In the Adirondacks' Copyright 1890, by S.R. Stoddard, Glen Falls, N.Y."

Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, upper left: "Gaston der Boscq de Beaumont / les Adirondacks / S-R. Stoddard. 1890".

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