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Catalog Number 1977.218.5419
Title Elizabethtown, Windsor House
Description View of Windsor House. Men and women are loaded onto stagecoaches, while others watch from the porch and balcony.
Collection Seneca Ray Stoddard Collection
Object Name Print, Photographic
Lexicon sub-category Documentary Artifact
Photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard
Date 1889, c.
Place Adirondacks/Essex Co./Elizabethtown
Search Terms Windsor House
Adirondacks
Classification Hotels
Architecture, Domestic
People
Women
Men
Transportation, Land
Medium Unmounted albumen print
Notes An ad in Stoddard's Northern Monthly, Aug. 1906, says it's "one of the largest and most famous summer hotels in the mountains." Offered golf, tennis, fishing, shooting, riding, driving, mountain climbing, "open-air swimming pool" from May 15-November. Rates: $3-4 per day, $15-21 per week.
Print size 8 x 6.5