Editorial Comment for this plate:

“PLEASANT VALLEY.”

PLEASANT VALLEY   THE group of pictures which embellish our current issue are from negatives by SR Stoddard, of Glens Falls, the well known Adirondack photographer. The grouping of the photographs with the ornamental accessories was done by Mr Stoddard, and then the whole was photographed for the copper plate engraving. Not only are the charming landscapes instructive in themselves as pictorial photographs, but in the grouping there is a lesson for photographers who desire to present their work in a similarly attractive manner. The original designing and lettering is done by hand on a negative, and then printed from in the group of photographs. “Pleasant Valley” with its picturesque little village of Elizabethtown; its Silver Cascade, Split Rock, and the many other charming bits of natural scenery, is in the Adirondacks, not far from the famous Keene Valley. (P. 51)

Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844–1917)