Image of the week: Tarsilla Schuster and an unidentified woman sitting on the porch of the "Idle Rest" platform tent at the New York State Hospital at Ray Brook, c. 1914. Tarsilla and her husband William were both patients at Ray Brook in the early 1900s. This photograph is one of the hundreds now available to the public on Historic Saranac Lake's Online Collections Database. More catalog records are being added every day! Visit the Database to dive in and browse the collection!
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2021.1.76]
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Image of the week: "Old Friends and Fresh Flowers are Good Medicine," by Richard H. Ray, showing patients Jack Longhine and Tom Burden. Ray was a patient at Trudeau Sanatorium and Ray Brook Hospital in the late 1930s. He documented patient life with his camera, photographing doctors, nurses, and patients. He compiled his memories of taking the cure in the book "Saranac: 1937-1940."
Ray's photographs are featured in the Art of the Cure exhibit, highlighting the use of occupational therapy with TB patients, at the Saranac Laboratory Museum. The exhibit is closing after this week, so the last day to see it is Saturday, November 13! The Saranac Laboratory Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10AM-5PM. [Historic Saranac Lake Collection.] The first snowflakes flew in Saranac Lake today, so we're thinking about winter sports. This photograph shows a group of six men and women seated on a sled. There is a child standing with a smaller sled behind them. Fletcher McCullough Durbin is seated at the left at the end of the sled, and Hazel Durbin is seated third from left with a scarf covering her face. They are preparing to ride the sled run from the side of Baker Mountain down to the ice on Moody Pond. Are you ready for snowy fun?
Learn more about the Durbins on our wiki. [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2020.2.53. Courtesy of John Durbin.] It's Halloween week, so here's even more inspiration from history! This photograph shows patients at Trudeau Sanatorium dressed up for Halloween in 1936 in the auditorium building. Patients enjoyed dressing up for holidays all year long, and also put on costumed plays and skits. Ed Worthington is seated in the second row center with a cowboy hat on.
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 727. Courtesy of Janet Dudones.] Halloween is less than three weeks away, so we're thinking about historic costume inspiration! This photograph shows Alice Delisle, who won the fancy dress contest at one of the first Winter Carnivals in 1898. Her image was printed in a 1909 commemorative Winter Carnival program. What figure from Saranac Lake history would you like to dress up as? [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 280. Courtesy of Hope Coons.] This year's Winter Carnival theme, Totally 80s, has been announced, so here's some inspiration from the 1984 Ice Palace! This postcard shows an elaborate ice palace lit up at night. What do you remember about Winter Carnivals in the 80s?
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 298. Courtesy of Rosamond Nadon.] Patients at work in the old workshop at Trudeau Sanatorium, 1908. Patients could take courses in photography, bookbinding, and hand-lettering and illumination. The original workshop first opened in 1905, and in 1909 it was replaced with the much larger Scholfield Memorial Workshop (which still stands today). Mark your calendars: the Art of the Cure exhibit, which explores the use of occupational therapy with tuberculosis patients in Saranac Lake, will close on Saturday, November 13! Don't miss this last chance to see the exhibit at the Saranac Laboratory Museum!
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2021.4. Courtesy of Trudeau Institute.] Image of the week: a group of patients bird watching at Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium (later Trudeau Sanatorium), c. 1915. Patients sometimes took part in light excursions around the campus, including snowshoeing, cross country skiing, and more. This photograph is part of a collection of glass plate negatives depicting patient life and facilities around the San. How are you planning to explore outdoors this fall?
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 284. Courtesy of Trudeau Institute.] Image of the week: Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau at work in the Saranac Laboratory, c. 1895. According to Marguerite Armstrong, Superintendent of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and friend of Dr. Trudeau, this is the "best picture ever taken" of him. Visitors to the Saranac Laboratory Museum can see Dr. Trudeau's office as part of their visit!
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 682. Courtesy of Trudeau Institute.] A gathering in the main room of the Saranac Lake Free Library, sometime in the early 1910s. The photograph includes some big names in the local community, including Mary Baldwin, Adah J. Hallock, Ernest H. Baldwin, Alice M. Vosburgh, Margaret Duryee, and others. The purpose of this meeting is unknown, but the photograph was taken in the very early days of the Saranac Lake Free Library. The single-room library building was built in 1910 on a parcel donated by George V. W. Duryee, husband of Margaret Duryee. The original building had room for 5,000 volumes; today, the circulating collection has more than 82,000 volumes! Stop by the Saranac Lake Free Library and see what features of this room you can spot today!
[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 708. Courtesy of Barbara Baldwin Knapp.] |
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