Image of the Week: Idle Rest

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]