B&W photo: man resting on his back on a small rock outcropping next to his tied-off canoe in the woods. Source caption reads: Group on Petria, Lake Mahopac (Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz) 📸: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"If the mood of the 19th Century was an essentially optimistic one, happy in its discovery and exploitation of the American continent..."

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