Adirondack Photographers

Edward Bierstadt

1824 - 1906

1885  Church on St. Hubert's Isle, Raquette Lake

1885  Mission of the Transfiguration Blue Mountain Lake

1885  Around Blue Mountain Lake  1356  

1885  Under the Hemlocks Hotel, Raquette Lake

1885  Piazza, Bennett's Hotel, Raquette Lake  49a

1885  Boat Landing at Kenwill's [sic], Raquette Lake  89b

1885  Camp Fairview, Osprey Island

1885  Entering Eagle Lake (postcard from photo)

1885  St. Hubert's from Camp Fairview

1914  Postcard from above photo

c1891 Killoquah No. 2 at Bassett's Carry

The Bierstadt brothers, Edward (1824-1906), Albert (1830-1902) and Charles, were landscape photographers, painters, illustrators and engravers, of whom Albert was the most recognized.

Edward was a noted portrait photographer and opened his own studio in New York City in 1860.  He also held an 1876 patent for an improvement to the Stereoscope Viewer, used for the extensive body of stereographs created by the Bierstadt brothers.

In 1885 Edward was employed by William West Durant to take a series of photos for an artistic brochure to help publicize the Adirondacks, and in particular Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake, as a vacation spot.  It was entitled The Adirondacks, Artotype Views Among the Mountains and Lakes of the North Woods.

Much of his work is simply signed "E. Bierstadt NYC."