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Paddle, Portage, Party: Digitizing Photographs in St. Lawrence University鈥檚 Special Collections

Apr 07, 2025 - May 31, 2025
During the fall of 2024, two students, Autumn Nealis 鈥25 and Sophia Roxo 鈥26, teamed up with Gallery Director Catherine Tedford and Curator of Special Collections Paul Doty to digitize and catalogue a collection of over 130 historical Adirondack photographs by Seneca Ray Stoddard housed at the Owen D. Young Library. Stoddard (1844鈥1917) was a pioneering landscape photographer known for capturing the rugged beauty of the Adirondack Mountains. Stoddard鈥檚 photographs and stereographs in the late 19th century offered viewers, especially those who had never visited the region, a unique glimpse into the untamed wilderness of upstate New York. The project was part of a community-based learning component of Dr. Mindy Pitre鈥檚 鈥淯npacking Museums鈥 course.

This spring, Autumn finished a related project cataloguing a collection of early artotype Adirondack prints by Edward Bierstadt (1824-1906). A lifelong lover of nature, Bierstadt captured the beauty of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, particularly around Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake, when commissioned by William West Durant in 1885 to create a promotional brochure.



During the fall of 2024, two students, Autumn Nealis 鈥25 and Sophia Roxo 鈥26, teamed up with Gallery Director Catherine Tedford and Curator of Special Collections Paul Doty to digitize and catalogue a collection of over 130 historical Adirondack photographs by Seneca Ray Stoddard housed at the Owen D. Young Library. Stoddard (1844鈥1917) was a pioneering landscape photographer known for capturing the rugged beauty of the Adirondack Mountains. Stoddard鈥檚 photographs and stereographs in the late 19th century offered viewers, especially those who had never visited the region, a unique glimpse into the untamed wilderness of upstate New York. The project was part of a community-based learning component of Dr. Mindy Pitre鈥檚 鈥淯npacking Museums鈥 course.

This spring, Autumn finished a related project cataloguing a collection of early artotype Adirondack prints by Edward Bierstadt (1824-1906). A lifelong lover of nature, Bierstadt captured the beauty of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, particularly around Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake, when commissioned by William West Durant in 1885 to create a promotional brochure.



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