Seneca Ray Stoddard

Nims and Knight were successors to Merriam, Moore & Co., who published a variety of things including the famous Franklin Globes from the historic (now, not then) Cannon Building in Troy. Among the offerings of Nims and Knight, as advertised in Scribner’s magazine in 1890, were a variety of books depicting the beauties of the Adirondacks through the now-legendary photography of Seneca Ray Stoddard.

No one was more important in both documenting and promoting the 19th-century Adirondack wilderness experience than Stoddard. It’s still my hope that someday, with a little luck, I’ll learn that a face gazing out of one of his photographs belongs to one of my forebears, who were among the very first Adirondack guides.

Several of Stoddard’s books are available on Google Books, including “The Adirondacks.”