Nathan Smilie Tupper Lake Adirondacks photograph album, 1896-1901

Summary

Creator:

Smilie, Nathan, 1868-1937

Abstract:

The Nathan Smilie Tupper Lake Adirondacks photograph album (13 x 20.75 cm) is a snapshot album with 37 photographs of the Adirondacks region of New York and groups of men boating, camping, and hunting. The album includes many night photographs taken with a flash. This album belonged to Dr. Nathan Smilie of Philadelphia.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Finding aid created by Claire Milldrum, February 2017

Background

Scope and Content:

The Nathan Smilie Tupper Lake Adirondacks photograph album (13 x 20.75 cm) is a 32 page album with 37 snapshots of the Adirondacks, groups of men, hunting, campsites, and cottages. Throughout the album are night photographs of deer taken with a flash.

Of note on the first page is a picture of Smilie and his guide, Jim Eccles, in a small boat entitled "Madawaska Sept 2-1901/Flash Light Outfit. 'The Oregon.'" Inside the boat is the equipment used to take flash photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Dr. Nathan Smilie (1868-1937) was born in Vermont to Henry (1826-1893) and Abigail (née Strew) Smilie (1826-1910). He was the youngest of five children. By 1890 he had moved to Philadelphia. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1894 and in 1917 was practicing medicine at 11 S. 16th Street. He married Marion Woltemate (1882-1948) in 1927 in New York City. He died in Florida and is buried in the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Acquisition Information:

1998. F-492 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Bibliography

"Dr. Nathan Smilie." www.findagrave.com (Accessed February 2017).

Polk's Medical Register and Directory Of North America. Detroit: R.L. Polk & Co., 1917.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Boathouses--New York--1890-1910.
Camping--New York--1890-1910.
Deer hunting--New York--1890-1910.
Dogs--New York--1890-1910.
Fishing--New York--1890-1910.
Hunting--New York--1890-1910.
Travel--New York--1890-1910.

Formats:

Flash photographs.
Landscape photographs.
Night photographs.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Platinum prints.
Snapshots.

Names:

Smilie, Nathan, 1868-1937.
Smilie, Nathan, 1868-1937.

Places:

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Tupper Lake (N.Y.)