Lake George: A Pictorial History – Hardcover

Lake George, As It Was

Before the motor launches, before the motels, before the summer crowds as we know them today — Lake George looked like this. Nearly two hundred photographs, many rarely seen before, document life at the lake around the turn of the twentieth century. The clothing, the boats, the bays, the hideaways, the people who lived there year-round and the vacationers who came every summer and never quite left.

The images were made by pioneer photographers Seneca Ray Stoddard and Jesse Sumner Wooley, along with other local professionals and amateurs who understood that what they were capturing was worth preserving. Authors Gale J. Halm and Mary H. Sharp provide the narrative that ties it together — a pictorial diary of a place our grandparents and great-grandparents would have recognized, and that anyone who loves Lake George today will find both familiar and startling.

This is Lake George as a new experience in an old familiar place.

Book Details

• Authors: Gale J. Halm & Mary H. Sharp
• 130 pages, hardcover — nearly 200 photographs
• Dimensions: 6.69 × 9.61 × 0.38 inches
• Publication date: April 2000
• ISBN: 9781531627492
• Ships free to all US addresses

Makes a Standout Gift

A natural companion to the Stoddard Map Collection — the same eye for Lake George detail, in a different medium. Pairs beautifully with Sweet Peas and a White Bridge and The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George from our history collection.