Seneca Ray Stoddard: Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image

Seneca Ray Stoddard (1843-1917) is arguably the most highly regarded photographer to work in the Adirondacks before Eliot Porter visited the region decades later in the 1960s. He was also a tireless guidebook writer and mapmaker. All told, his output was prodigious. And, as his career evolved, Stoddard moved beyond simply recording and writing about the Adirondacks to advocating the region's preservation through the creation of a vast state park. Horrell, a Harvard librarian, looks at this remarkable career and how it was influenced by Americas' changing attitudes toward wilderness. Black and white photographs. 165 pages. Hardcover. 1999.