The photograph collection consists of more than 75,000 images and depicts a wide range of human activity and landscape views from about 1845 to the present, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1875 to 1950. Photographic media include albumen and gelatin silver prints, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cyanotypes, carbon and Cibachrome prints, crayon enlargements, glass and film-based negatives and transparencies, and lantern slides. Formats include panoramas, stereoviews, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and larger presentation formats, photo albums (personal, corporate, and photographers’ proofs), real photo postcards, and prints tipped into bound volumes. The images represent virtually every aspect of life in the Adirondacks, from logging camps to family gatherings to community celebrations. Photographers represented in the collection include Margaret Bourke-White, Henry M. Beach, Alfred Steiglitz, and Seneca Ray Stoddard.