Adirondack Museum
Introduces Historic
Photo Book
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Adirondack Museum
Contact: Susan Dineen
Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. 12812
Director of Marketing
December 8, 2008
(518) 352-7311, ext. 121
Adirondack Museum Introduces Historic Photo Book
Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. — Just in time for holiday giving, the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York has announced the release of a new book, Historic Images of the Adirondacks.
Historic Images of the Adirondacks features more than 140 historic photographs drawn from the Adirondack Museum’s renowned collection of over 80,000 images. The book includes photos of early settlers, lumber camps, Great Camps, hotels, campgrounds, community life, and much more. Victoria Verner Sandiford selected and compiled images for the new book.
Historic Images of the Adirondacks is available at the Museum Store in Blue Mountain Lake, open daily until December 23 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.; at the Museum Store in Lake Placid, offering special holiday hours; and on-line twenty-fours hours a day at www.adirondackmuseumstore.com. The book is priced at $19.95.
The Adirondack Museum’s Chief Curator Laura Rice says, “This book celebrates more than 150 years of life in the Adirondacks, captured in photographs.”
She adds, “In these images we see people and places that have long since disappeared: an “immense pile of pulpwood” in Newton Falls; Georgia O’Keefe summering in Lake George; and a small mom-and-pop general store in Newcomb. Other photographs depict places that are still familiar parts of the landscape: Camp Pine Knot, Fish Creek Campsite, and the Ausable Chasm. Individually, the photos offer a glimpse of a single moment in time, but together they form a visual history of the Adirondack region.”
The Adirondack Museum tells the story of the Adirondacks through exhibits, special events, classes for schools, and hands-on activities for visitors of all ages. For information about all that the museum has to offer, please call (518) 352-7311, or visit www.adirondackmuseum.org.
