Seneca Ray Stoddard: An American Original
Now playing on PBS 2. Known primarily for his photography, but outlines a great many surveying activities as well in the Adirondacks. Looks like he paid for his photo work with surveying and mapping projects.
Did a wall sized map titled "Adirondack Wilderness".
> Seneca Ray Stoddard: An American Original
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> Now playing on PBS 2. Known primarily for his photography, but outlines a great many surveying activities as well in the Adirondacks. Looks like he paid for his photo work with surveying and mapping projects.
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> Did a wall sized map titled "Adirondack Wilderness".
I can't speak to him being a land surveyor (I don't think he was) but I can say that Verplanck Colvin hired him for a year to run the "photography division" of the Adirondack Survey. I think he clashed with Colvin and Colvin took over that aspect of the Adirondack survey. Most of his work was making postcard photos of the great camps etc.
I believe Stoddard was more of a cartographer rather than surveyor making large scale maps of Lake George etc.
Could be wrong,
Jim Vianna
Here is a famous photo of Lake Tear of the Clouds from 1888 (highest water source in NY), Stoddard took while working for Colvin that is now in the Library of Congress
