Hotel Ampersand
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
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From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
Hotel Ampersand looms over Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks ca. 1890.
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An 1881 gathering of canoeists on Canoe Island in Lake George, New York.
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Walter Stewart sails Pearl at the American Canoe Association meeting in 1886. Stewart was an admirer of American-built canoes.
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American Canoe Association founding member William Alden and his original canoe Shadow at the ACA gathering on Lake George in 1881.
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
In this photograph titled “The Canoe, The Cup and The Captor,” R. W. Gibson poses with the International Challenge Cup, which he won in the Rushton Vesper that he had designed, August 26, 1885.