Off to the Finger Lakes and coming back later. I’ll send a wire so you can meet me at Grand Central with a bunch of daisies. Imagery from an 1891 promotional pamphlet urging tourists to visit Lake Keuka that was probably paid for by the Bath and Hammondsport Railroad and Lake Keuka Steamers as their timetables are prominently listed. Where my mother went to college and I went to camp, too.

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Front cover, Page 7, Image 6, of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/n6/mode/1up
Bath and Hammondsport Rail Road Docks; Among the Wooded Points – Major Gardner’s Cottage. Page 8 Image 16 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/8/mode/1up
Urbana Wine Company. Page 10 Image 18 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/10/mode/1up
Urbana – to and from the Vineyards. Love the sailboat and the canoe, and the tourists posing with the canoe paddle. Page 12 Image 20 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/12/mode/1up
The Land of Vineyards. Page 16 Image 24 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/16/mode/1up
Bluff Point (upper image and lower left) and the Keuka Hotel: The Fisherman’s Favorite Waters. Page 18 Image 26 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/18/mode/1up
Among the Villas (and a nice boathouse too). Page 19 Image 27 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/19/mode/1up
Camping. Page 27 Image 35 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/27/mode/1up
Penn Yan: The Piers and Fall Brook Rail Road. Page 30 Image 38 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/30/mode/1up
Trout caught in the Deep Pools. Page 40 Image 48 of Lake Keuka which was copyrighted by the Library of Congress on August 11, 1891. The Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, New York, printers and engravers. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lakekeuka00buff/page/n39/mode/1up

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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