Seneca Ray Stoddard Adirondacks Illustrated 1875 Guidebook

Description: Seneca Ray Stoddard The Adirondacks Illustrated, hardcover, 1875, Illustrated, 181 pages, This is Stoddard's third Adirondack guidebook; the first being published in 1873. No foldout map came with this issue. There is a 2 page map-see scan. Very good condition; clean and tight. Normal wear to spine tips and corners.Stoddard was born at Wilton, in Saratoga County, New York, May 13, 1844, son of Charles Stanley Stoddard and Julia Ann Ray.[1] 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."[2] In early 1892, he was invited to give an illustrated lecture to the New York State Legislature that was influential in the creation of the Adirondack Park.

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Location: Queensbury, New York

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