It’s always amazing to see how things branch off, a search for one thing sparking a new project. A search to find one or two images of illustrations done by the artist D. F. Hasbrouck for the Ulster & Delaware RR tourist books, images needed to accompany a Catskill Region Guide article, revealed 2 of those books at the Library of Congress AND a much earlier book, devoted to Pine Hill, that Hasbrouck seems to have been the driving force behind. I’m pondering assembling all of that material into a new book.
The Pine Hill book carried this copyright notice: Copyrighted 1883 by Hasbrouck, Guigou, & Kerr. That’s interesting because in a 1913 letter to Mr. Rathbun, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian, in charge of the National Gallery, Hasbrouck wrote, “”I have never copyrighted any of my work—and I know not of any having been copyrighted unless some black & white work I did years ago for etching &tc.” Apparently, he had had enough success by his fifties that he didn’t remember doing something that must have been a very big deal when he was in his twenties.