Section:
In Recreation and Leisure
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Arpad G. Gerster was a Hungarian-born surgeon who summered in the Adirondacks in the 1890s and early 1900s. He had a summer home, Camp Oteetiwi, on Raquette Lake's Big Island, but he really enjoyed the solitude of the more remote Adirondack lakes and ponds.
This 1897 photograph shows Dr. Gerster at Bug Lake (near Seventh & Eighth Lakes) at one of his favorite pastimes--sketching. Many of his sketchbooks are in the museum's collection.
The guideboat beached on shore near him was built by Jerome Wood of Raquette Lake. To get it onto Bug Lake, Gerster would have had to carry it nearly a mile from the nearest body of water.
This 1897 photograph shows Dr. Gerster at Bug Lake (near Seventh & Eighth Lakes) at one of his favorite pastimes--sketching. Many of his sketchbooks are in the museum's collection.
The guideboat beached on shore near him was built by Jerome Wood of Raquette Lake. To get it onto Bug Lake, Gerster would have had to carry it nearly a mile from the nearest body of water.
Catalog #:
P026395
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