The American annual of photography (1914) (14593997869)

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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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Rensselaer and occupied by a historical society, is in thetown. Canajoharie Creek, flowing through a deep gorge overan exposed rocky bed, will render unnecessary your contem-plated trip to the Rhine. Now we will return to the town of Herkimer and takeanother trolley across lots to Cooperstown. If you do notbelieve that Otsego Lake (Figure 3) is beautiful, read theDeerslayer. Cooper loved it and transplanted that love to 263 his books, so that every foot of this country breathes with thespirit of Cooper. Leatherstocking Falls, Fairy Spring, thesource of the Susquehanna River, Natty Bumppos cave farup on the mountainside, and the smooth shining lake forwhich Cooper had his own pet name of Glimmerglass, areforever bound to the fame of old Leatherstocking. TomHutter and his fair daughters, Judith and Hetty, Hurry HarryMarch, Chingatchgook, the good Indian and Hist his faithfulsquaw, and the whole legions which people the Cooper uni-verse. Here in this park stood Coopers mansion and under
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Figure 2.OLD DUTCH STONE HOUSE AT PALATINE BRIDGE. those trees he penned his books; this was the lakeside wherehe strolled, and there in that quiet country churchyard hesleeps the sleep everlasting. Scenery and tradition are hereintermingled as they are in few other spots on the Americancontinent. It is a photographers paradise. If time permits, we will go on by train to Albany, a townmost rich in historical material. Here on a single block youmay cover the oldest bank building in the country, the site ofthe home of Anneke Janse, the place where DeWitt Clintondied, the birthplaces of Philip Schuyler and Philip Livingston, 264