American Winter Sports: Trout Fishing “On Chateaugay Lake”

Printed by Endicott & Co.

Lithographed by Charles R. Parsons
American, 1821-1910

After Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
American, 1819-1905

Chateaugay Lake is located in the northern Adirondacks of upstate New York. The lake was a popular destination for sportsmen such as Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. An avid outdoorsman, Tait often contributed images to the Currier & Ives firm. He had a camp on Chateaugay Lake and frequently traveled there with fellow hunters and anglers. The man pictured in the foreground of this print is his friend Thomas Barbour. Like many wilderness areas, Chateaugay Lake experienced a change after the post-Civil War boom. Backwoods lodges and sporting clubs, once populated by dedicated hunters and fishermen, were replaced with resorts that catered to a new clientele—businessmen and their families from the cities.

Date: 1856

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