RAY STODDARD GLENS FALLS NY STEREOVIEW LOWER AUSABLE POND ADIRIONDACKS NY

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RAY STODDARD GLENS FALLS NY STEREOVIEW LOWER AUSABLE POND ADIRIONDACKS NY:
$14.95

Offered for sale is an early stereoview Photographed by S. R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, NY.
Stoddard was born atWilton, inSaratoga County, New York, May 13, 1844. He was largely self-taught. He left home at 16 and got work painting ornamental freight cars and decorative scenes in passenger cars. He started in photography at age 20, initially inGlens Fallsand later throughout the Adirondacks. He published a guide toSaratoga Springsfollowed byLake George - Luzerne - Schroon Lakein 1873, and revised each of the subsequent five years. In 1878 the guide was expanded toLake George and Lake Champlain
He was best known for his guidebook,The Adirondacks: Illustrated, published in 1873, revised and reprinted through 1914, and the first tourist map of the Adirondacks, published in 1874. In 1878, Stoddard produced a topographical survey of the Adirondacks. In 1882 Stoddard invented \"a camera attachment for use in dry-plate photography and to perfect the -magnesium flash- for taking night photographs.\"In early 1892, he was invited to give an illustrated lecture to the New York State Legislature that was influential in the creation of theAdirondack Park.
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I will accept PAYPAL. Items will be shipped first class mail usually next day after payment of Paypal, packaging and mail $2.99. I will combine shipping 1 to 3 views $2.99, 3 to 6 views $5.35 and over 6 no additional postage or shipping charge.

I will ship internationally, payment must be in US funds, Paypal. I will ship world wide International first Class Mail 1 stereoview for $5.99 plus $1.00 for each additional stereoview in combined ship. This increase is due to the new postal service rates. Perhaps I should note that my cost to ship 1 - Two Oz package is $6.16 (1 stereoview packaged) , a 3 oz package is $9.18 international first class mail