Bill Rasbeck, a well-known guide of Cranberry Lake, rows an Adirondack Skiff. An Adirondack Pack Basket sits at his feet, and he smokes a pipe. 1888. Cranberry Lake, NY. Photo taken by Seneca Ray Stoddard and titled: The Way it Looks From the Stern Seat.”
Pictured is Helen, a steam motor launch owned by the Cranberry Lake Transportation Company; she’s docked in front of the Deremos Hotel and loading passengers. Deremos Hotel was built in 1903 and burnt in 1907. Circa 1907. Cranberry Lake.
The steam boat Helen leaving Nunn’s dock at Cranberry Lake. Nunn’s Inn on Cranberry lake (1898-1910) was famous for guided hunting expeditions in the area. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake.
Camp Watokalo Dobson’s. Group of men pose with five deer outside of log hunting camp. 1900-1910. Adirondacks. Check out this related story on how trains brought tourism to Cranberry Lake.
A Real Photo Postcard of Keibel’s Hunting Camp, featuring a hunter posing with a buck in front of a log cabin. Circa 1900-1910. Wanakena, NY.
Pictured is Bill Rasbeck, a well-known Cranberry Lake guide, whose clientele included artist Frederic Remington. He is holding a gun and wearing an Adirondack pack-basket. His hunting dog stands beside him. Circa 1900. Cranberry Lake, NY. Taken by photographer W.J. Carpenter, M.D. Amateur.
Four hunting guides sit in an old bark roofed Adirondack lean-to, filled with hunting, fishing, and camping gear. In the middle of the picture is a classic Adirondack pack-basket. Circa 1890s. Cranberry Lake, NY.
A seven person hunting party sits between a tent and a pyramid of fishing poles and long guns. Note the classic Adirondack pack-basket being used as a chair on the far right. Circa 1895. Cranberry Lake, NY. Taken by W.J. Carpenter, M.D. Amateur.
Eureka steam launch and a crew of loggers posing on a dock holding logging tools (peaveys, double bitted axes and pikes) at dock equipped with a hand operated crane for loading logs and lumber onto boats. Circa 1890-1900, Herkimer County. Photo printed by Stratton Photo, Utica, NY
The Howland Brothers were well known Cranberry Lake hunting and fishing guides in the late 1800s. In this photo they are posed on the porch of their camp on Cranberry Lake, with two women and a girl. Note that the camp was built using Adirondack style vertical log siding. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY.
