Catskill Mountain House and the Roots of Landscape Tourism
The Otis Elevating Railway and, at top left, the Catskill Mountain House, ca. 1902. Detroit Publishing Co., Library of CongressGetting to the Catskill Mountain House by boat and rail. Source: Hudson River By Day Light, Wallace Bruce, 1898William Henry Bartlett’s “View from the Mountain House, Catskill,” engraved by Robert Brandard, ca. 1839Hudson River Day Line steamer Albany after passing under the Poughkeepsie Bridge, bet. 1900 – 1910. Detroit Publishing Co., Library of CongressWilliam Gray Hassler and Ethel Magaw Hassler on a Hudson River Day Line ferry from New York to Poughkeepsie, watching a train go over the Poughkeepsie Bridge, September 10, 1915. Photo courtesy The New-York Historical Replica of the Seneca Chief passes the Catskill Mountain House site on a historic voyage from Buffalo to NYC in observance of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal
