For this Women's History Month Museum Monday, we want to share this pen and ink drawing from our collection. This image, titled "Adirondack Arrival," was created by Amy Jones. Jones was an accomplished artist who accompanied her ailing husband, David Blair Jones, who came to Saranac Lake for the cure in 1930.

While her husband cured, Jones taught watercolor painting at the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild and was a founding member of the Saranac Lake Art League. While living in Saranac Lake, she became one of the first artists to work for the Section of Fine Arts established by the United States Treasury Department as part of the New Deal. As a part of this project, she painted murals in post offices in Painted Post and Scotia, both in New York, and Winsted, Connecticut.

Throughout her career, Jones also contributed to magazines such as Women's Day, provided art work for advertising and illustrated books for World Publishing, Thomas Y. Crowell, and Random House. Although she moved to Mt. Kisco, New York in 1943, she maintained ties with the village. In 1946, she illustrated A Child’s Garden of Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson, another famous health seeker. In 1969, she returned to Saranac Lake to give a demonstration at the opening day of the village's annual Paint and Palette Festival.

"Adirondack Arrival" was created around 1940 as an illustration for an unpublished children's book by Louise Leser. The illustration depicts passengers arriving at Saranac Lake's Union Depot, and the caption underneath reads "Down the street came a dog team at full gallop." The drawing was donated to Historic Saranac Lake by her daughter Lucy Jones Berk in 1996.

To learn more about Jones' career, and see more of her work, click the button at right to visit our wiki!

It's both Women's History Month and Tuberculosis Thursday, so we're sharing the story of Christine Burdick today. Burdick was employed by the First Presbyterian Church of Saranac Lake from 1928 to 1933 as the "Parish Visitor"— she visited tubercular patients who were on bed rest in local sanatoria, cure cottages, and private homes, providing for the spiritual care of those living with tuberculosis. In 1928 alone, she made two thousand visits! At the church, she led the youth group and assisted with prayer services.

To learn more about Burdick's life and work, visit our wiki!

On Wednesdays during Women's History Month, we want to feature Women Writers! Our first featured writer of the month is Adelaide Crapsey. Adelaide Crapsey was a teacher and a poet, and left her teaching position at Smith College after she succumbed to tuberculosis. She came to Saranac Lake, where she wrote some of her best works, and stayed at 39 Clinton Avenue (71 Clinton Avenue today).

Her cure porch at what is now known as the Adelaide Crapsey Cottage overlooked Pine Ridge Cemetery. It was this view that inspired her to write what is perhaps her best-known poem, "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath my Window." You can read it below. Unfortunately, the cure was not successful for Crapsey and she died after returning home to Rochester in 1914.

Learn more about Crapsey on our wiki.

It's Museum Monday, so we want to use a recent addition to the collection to tell a story about a Saranac Lake woman! This 1899 calendar and undated advertisement were created by Katherine E. McClellan. McClellan was an accomplished photographer and began her career in Saranac Lake after she moved to the area when her sister was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

In Saranac Lake she produced and sold photos of the Adirondack landscape, operating out of her Highland Park studio on the corner of Park Avenue and Old Military Road (see ad). She later became the official photographer of Smith College, her alma mater.

McClellan was connected with John Brown farm, as she produced and sold artistic booklets of John Brown's grave, but she had another unusual connection to the men killed at Harper's Ferry. Click over to our wiki to read the strange story, and learn more about her photographic career and see examples of her work!

Stay tuned for more posts in honor of Women's History Month all month long!